MJ's little flock

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[BY Bob]

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Aren't we all?

Someone sent me this. Funny but it is true.

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

 

[Shadrach]

It's true though MaryJanet. Poor Shad has evolved (?) to become a chicken servant!

I can't think of a more worthwhile occupation; they've served us for long enough..........

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning folks

 

[Shadrach]

One of Knocks. The only one I'm sure is female.

 

[MaryJanet]

One of Knocks. The only one I'm sure is female.
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She's very sweet.

 

[MaryJanet]

Sandy's having a check up this morning. She's taken to roosting on level 3 then she can't get down without a crash landing in the morning. I tried helping but that made her even more anxious. So she's become a little stiff in her movement (except when she's dashing across the yard), maybe complicated by her reproductive health problems?

Even if there's nothing wrong, there's no harm in a check up.

 

[Ribh]

Sandy's having a check up this morning. She's taken to roosting on level 3 then she can't get down without a crash landing in the morning. I tried helping but that made her even more anxious. So she's become a little stiff in her movement (except when she's dashing across the yard), maybe complicated by her reproductive health problems?

Even if there's nothing wrong, there's no harm in a check up.

Oh dear. That doesn't sound good. Lavender is crash landing upwards. She was never the most athletic chook but now...

 

[MaryJanet]

Oh dear. That doesn't sound good. Lavender is crash landing upwards. She was never the most athletic chook but now...

The vet told me something today, which I'd always had a sense of but never fully understood.

Chickens with Sandy's genes are elderly at the age of 3. He estimates her age at 3.5.

Shad talks about them dying too soon, but I didn't feel alert to the "early" geriatric part of it.

So it doesn't matter how careful and cautious my husbandry is, she's in her twilight.

If she makes it to 5, she'll be an outlier.

Anyway, today she got a jab of something to rejuvenate her joints (it stimulates stem cell growth) and she'll have another next week, and the whole bunch are on lincospectin for a few days because Janet's been sneezing n wheezing lately.