Drastic changes of temperature of more than 20°F in fully feathered chickens can lead to stress reactions. Try not to have it too toasty in the bathroom. Being naked will help her and the change in temp won't be too much for her. You just don't want it 80°F in the bathroom.
That's a lot of bare skin poor thing!
Love how she chirrups back to you when you talk to her Ribh.Desdemona actually suits her really well. I did think it might be too big a name for her @ first but apparently not.She is a very calm, sweet ladylike chicken. She is the only one of my new ones I can handle without major dramas.
I think most people have seen this but here she is:
This is so funny!! I love the way you have posted this story. My family wanted to know what i was laughing at!!Coming of age
Indeed yes they are big, though temperatures here are well below freezing and they are exceptionally good at fluffing themselves up - so they look way bigger than they really are.
Dotty has been laying eggs for some weeks now - though she has some kind of problem in that she doesn't shut off the poop tube when she lays, so her pretty little blue eggs are always covered in s**t and so are effectively brown eggs
Minnie however has for a couple of weeks now been teasing me on the egg front. Every day she spends ages in the nest boxes rearranging the wood chips.
Then she emerges and shouts the house down announcing the egg she has not produced. No egg from all that activity.
But yesterday she finally produced an egg. A teeny, tiny egg. Here it is compared to Dotty's egg (poop brushed off an hidden from camera) and Elizabeth's egg.
A robin would be proud!
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Anyway, it is clear they are no longer 'The Little Princesses'. I now have a flock of 5 Princesses.
What a great portrait. She is beautiful
Laying status does confer pecking order status. That is how Maleficent passed Aurora. She laid first.
I think Aurora may, but who listens to her, right?
What a good dog Lexi is!!!What’s a BBB? My Border Collie will “get the little birds” out of the chicken run upon command in the spring & summer when the run gate is wide open for free range time. She is more of a pet than a working dog, but I probably should have given her a proper job, as she thinks her job is chasing the ball.
She does have herding instincts, or at least she did as a pup. A baby bunny got out and she instinctively helped me corral it. She didn’t know the words, but understood the tone of my voice. At one point, her nose was nuzzled up against the bunny’s fur, but she did not harm it. When tge bunny collapsed from exhaustion, Lexi’s ears oerked up and she appeared ready to pounce. I just held out my hand and told her “Wait!” in s firm voice. She sat and watched as zi gently pocked up the bunny snd returned it to its enclosure.
We have a local pair of ravens I call our “guard ravens,” because they drive off hawks, too.
Chicken Tax
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Western Rustic (and Sasso? I was trying to Google that but am coming up short - an acronym for a hybrid of sorts?) - I don't recall learning what your new rescues were, thank you!
