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Little Donk had a weasel hanging of her bum feathers this evening.
Donk is pretty small for a cross breed. She bantam size looking side on but front on you realise that she is very stocky. She sort of stomps around the place and has the most indelicate walk of any of the hens. But, when it comes to being quick and to flying, Donk is the fastest and can stay off the ground for 300 feet.
I only just caught the attack and if it hadn't been for seeing Gedit charge into the bamboo I wouldn't have looked for the others. I looked up the track in time to see a few of Donks feathers fluttering in the wind and Donk, half running and half attempting to fly with a weasel hanging on like grim death. Donk got maybe 10 inches off the ground and the weasel sort of dropped off with a mouthful of feathers.
We get a lot of weasel attacks and they are very rarely fatal. If the chicken can run and find cover it's over. What the weasel does not want is having to face a chicken head on. The weasels eyes are a major weak spot and they much prefer being away from the sharp end of a chicken.

Glad she got away from the weasel ok!
 
Poor Seneca laid an egg in an egg.
I wasn't thinking and didn't take a picture before I cracked it as I thought it was just a double yolker. Then I started messing with the shell-less egg inside the shelled egg and popped it.
This is the shell next to the last normal egg she laid.
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Poor Seneca laid an egg in an egg.
I wasn't thinking and didn't take a picture before I cracked it as I thought it was just a double yolker. Then I started messing with the shell-less egg inside the shelled egg and popped it.
This is the shell next to the last normal egg she laid.
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Wow, not much warming up for that girl!
 

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