MJ's little flock

[BY Bob]

Just yesterday I said how contented the hens are.

Peggy started a heavy moult overnight and this morning she's utterly ropeable and laser focussed on making Mary pay for it. Janet is intervening best she can. Ivy is keeping well away. Mary is clucking and running and jumping up onto things, none of which she's adept at.

Oh no! Poor Mary.

 

[LozzyR]

Just yesterday I said how contented the hens are.

Peggy started a heavy moult overnight and this morning she's utterly ropeable and laser focussed on making Mary pay for it. Janet is intervening best she can. Ivy is keeping well away. Mary is clucking and running and jumping up onto things, none of which she's adept at.

Heavy moults are the worst.

 

[MaryJanet]

Oh no! Poor Mary.

It was not good. Right now, all four are snoozing in a pile, so I'm hopeful Peggy got it out of her system.

 

[BY Bob]

It was not good. Right now, all four are snoozing in a pile, so I'm hopeful Peggy got it out of her system.

Hopefully but I'm certain she will be easily irritated for some time. Be very wary everyone.

 

[MaryJanet]

Hopefully but I'm certain she will be easily irritated for some time. Be very wary everyone.

Mary has had a poopy bum for a while and I wondered whether the smell was setting Peggy off. Anyway, I put Mary in the tub and then realised how long she'd have to soak before her poop clods softened, so I got the scissors and very gently and carefully snipped them off. She didn't mind. The whole process, from deciding to take action to cleaning out the tub afterwards, was over in about 30 minutes.

I can see Mary is pleased. The clods were rather large and would've been uncomfortable.

Peggy hasn't chased her since, but I'll keep watching.

 

[MaryJanet]

I just realised I used the sentence "I put Mary in the tub" like it's no big deal because it really wasn't a big deal to slowly herd the entire flock into the bathroom, close the door, then corner Mary with a big towel and lift her into the bath. I closed the shower curtains to give her a sense of containment, so she'd be less inclined to try hopping out, then I left her to settle while I slowly herded the others back outside.

She was an angel to handle, trim and lift out again.

Two years ago all of that would've been unthinkable.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I have never tried the quote function. Does the ‘reply’ function work for you?
You can then edit if you only want to reply to part of a post - as I have done with this reply.

Huh, I've never tried the reply function.
Thanks RC! It's working at the moment.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Lozzy said:

It turns the blue box off and back on. Why you would want to turn it off I don’t know, because the blue box is there when you post.

I got the blue box by pressing the quote symbols " in the 2nd more options tool bar.
Not sure what it's supposed to do.

Chicken tax for all the IT talk.
Tsuki and Deanna going through that awkward chick-to-pullet stage.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Just yesterday I said how contented the hens are.

Peggy started a heavy moult overnight and this morning she's utterly ropeable and laser focussed on making Mary pay for it. Janet is intervening best she can. Ivy is keeping well away. Mary is clucking and running and jumping up onto things, none of which she's adept at.

Poor Peggy. All my girls are shedding feathers at the moment too.
Did I ever share Tsuki's bad moult?

Spoiler: Not as bad as Alice's, but hidden for Royal Chick's sake

 

[MaryJanet]

Poor Peggy. All my girls are shedding feathers at the moment too.
Did I ever share Tsuki's bad moult?

Spoiler: Not as bad as Alice's, but hidden for Royal Chick's sake

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That's a big one! Did she cope well?