Well, I did a thing today, darn my brother and his enabling.
Congratulations ! It seems like you made many people on this thread happy, so you can be assured you've done a good deed
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But does the FBA world realise what that Silkie enabler living 30 mn away from you will really mean in terms of enabling ?
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@Ponypoor I remembered you asked me to tell how long Laure's implant would last. Well, she laid last week on the 27 January, and she was implanted on the 17th of August, so that was five months and ten days.
Unfortunately her first egg was fine but she passed two soft shell eggs since and the last one made her awfully unwell. So I will likely make an appointment to get her another implant. Apart from a very difficult molt at the start, she was doing great with it.
And I have another very unwell hen, Nieva the leghorn. She laid a soft shell egg three weeks ago and since then has been very sick. Looking back, there were forewarning signs of reproductive issues. Since she was moulting, I thought it was due to that. She is too unwell to make the two hours drive to the vet without taking the risk that she has to stay at the clinic, which I really don't want, and she is also utterly terrified whenever we come near her. So she's on her own ; if she makes it through and gets better, we will also get her implanted (if she does not already have cancer, which would be my guess).
I don't feel good about it, but I have not really grown attached to the two leghorns that live here, Alba and Nieva. It's strange because we spent hours caring for their bumblefoot, brought them both to the vet, but I still feel estranged to them and they are both terrified of me. And I have been so sad when Piou-piou died that I feel a bit numb now, like I will never care that much for a chicken.
While I've come to acknowledge I don't feel the same way for all my chickens, I agree it's not helpful to compare them ; and that we should take them as they are. For me it's important to have thought about personal guidelines for chicken husbandry, it helps to know what to do in situations where you have to make choices, whatever your feeling for the chicken may be.
Then of course...
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ignore...
Tuefer : we all know it takes two to lay an egg, especially the first one after three weeks on broody pause !
the world works backwards for me. I’m just glad that I have my chickens! I’m waiting for paul to arrive, so I can go
