I haven't found time to reply about those pots for a much needed clarificationI have to admit that we also have one of those expensive pots in use by the chickens. It's why I recognized it so quickly. Of course ours was damaged first.
My hens can somehow still flip it over.
Therefore it is mostly used as a step.
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...all the ones we found here are definitely not Le Creuset but some cheap copycats. The people who lived in this house throughout the 20th century were very poor. They had just enough to eat and they would never have spent a hundred bucks on a pot.We found maybe 20 of them of various size, type and state. The ones we use for the chickens are too damaged to cook in !
So do we, we kept five and set three aside that were still usable for future replacement. We cook mostly on the wood stove, so they get damaged much quicker. And I've never used the real thing so I can't compare but possibly they are not the same quality.
It was my partner's turn to cook tonight.
Leek and squash quiche.
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Little Chipie has been worrying me having seizures for a few days. She seems to be better now. Here she was getting some vitamin D.
I recently read that those sun bathing session are very important for laying hens because they help them getting the d3 necessary to assimilate calcium. Not sure of there's any truth in it or if it's just some conspiracy theory chickens are spreading to be let out to sunbathe.
About the avian flu vaccination, I'll look up if I can find information on how it's going for chickens here. It was massively done for ducks last year and considered a success as the number of outbreaks diminished considerably, but this is the first year they are massively vaccinating chickens. However up to now there has been absolutely no talk of doing it for backyard poultry. As in the US, most vaccines are not accessible for private chicken owners, even though some of the breed clubs are actively lobbying to make that happen.
