Meanwhile, I have a young BR that comes running whenever she sees me, pecks my leg or arm for attention, and is chatting all the time to me. She lets me pick her up...but does expect an extra treat for the honour of her presence.

George (as in Curious George) is immediately what came to mind with her personality. I didn't feel comfortable calling her 'George' even though it fit....so I call her Georgie. I think she now knows her name, but it is hard to tell as she comes when she hears me talking - so is it just my voice, or that she knows her name???? :idunno :idunno Regardless, she is a real chatty Cathy!!! And she makes my heart sing when she chooses to get snuggles🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@ChicoryBlue If you can look past the slightly aggressiveness of Dian-Ida....I think it is so sweet that she needs your attention - an dI hope you are successful in 'taming' her without her loosing her 'forward' personality, nor her love for you.

Hope all is going well - or at least better - at your place. One of your recent posts made me a bit concerned!:hugs:hugs:hugs:hugs:hugs
Thanks (and @Ponypoor too). It's a family member, not me / not here, but yes, really serious and very distressing. 😢

I wondered about there being two shells. Perhaps, but Pip is also the one who laid the record biggest egg at 84 grams and then broke that record a few days later with one that was 85. Both were double yolks.

What damage does coccidiosis do to the inside of a chicken? I've never seen anything about that, just that it's deadly, but thankfully easy to treat.

Pip was the smallest of the chicks when they arrived; I don't know if that has anything to do with her issues either. She seems to be a fighter!
I don't know how much intestinal inflammation / lesions heal. Maybe completely? The gut wall can be "compromised" in active infection (which can lead to other opportunistic infections) so it's at least temporarily damaged. How much permanent damage is done I don't really know. Depends on the extent and length of infection until it's cleared? I imagine that the body's efforts to clear it, & cordon off the inflammation could cause a change in structure like scarring. But I haven''t read or heard specifically that coccidiosis does this. I wonder about it like @BY Bob did 🤔
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8879868/
and https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/coccidiosis-in-poultry/coccidiosis-in-poultry
 
So lovette had a total of 14 sibling, most of whom were rehomed to chicken loving families - including Hannah. Hannah’s new family told me the story of how she and her husband were in bed for the evening and they heard knocking on the back door. The wife got up and found Hannah at the door and she came right in the house. Sheila said Hannah just wants to be close to her. And these are pics of her and Hannah that night…
What a special relationship.
 
Mine are locked in the complex. The snow is way too deep for them. Once it melts some Phyllis will be all over it.
Do you normally get that much snow? For here I wouldn’t bat an eyelash at it, but your so far south I wonder if it’s usual for you? FYI still no snow here - cold today and flurries but just a dry dusting . The chickens decided nope not going out today when I got home, too windy and too cold.

It was hilarious- they ran out to the middle of the run, stopped looked around and ran back inside the barn hahaha - wimps!
 
Well it’s 🎼 Me and my Coco tonight!
Actually she was stirring trouble in the coop during perching time. So she’s in the house now. image.jpg
 

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