I'm so sorry too. We all hoped you could get Rudy back !
It's a nice picture, very evocative ! You could enter it in the caption contest, though to me it's more poetic than funny.
I'm beginning to have the same issue with Gaston. Silly Lilly is picking his butt and neck's new growing feathers and he's too nice to make her stop. She's the only one to do that up to now, some of the other hens preen him but they are a lot more gentle.
What's in that product ?
That is so Mary Poppins ...or our kitch cult musical movie, with Catherine Deneuve, "Les parapluies de Cherbourg"
I don't think condensation will be an issue as the umbrellas don't take enough space to completely stop evaporation.
About wrapping the roost, I had the opposite experience from many of you. I wrapped one of the roost with a yoga mat last year when Lilly first had her abscess on her keel bone. I left it for weeks. Not one hen would roost on it, except Merle, and later Karz reluctantly. But Lilly never even set a foot on it!
I wonder if I should try it again now she has her abscess flaring back.
How dare you wake us up on Caturday ?
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Léa and Merle have laid respectively 15 and 17 eggs since they finished moulting and both are now demonstrating for a pronatalist chicken policy, even risking jail.
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