This is very exciting!Oh. My. Goodness. I have new girls arriving on Friday! I can't quite believe this is happening so quickly. The only thing Natasha doesn't have right now are aracaunas so...2 Japanese bantams ~ a splash & a birchen; 2 frizzle bantams that I think she said were Belgian, 2 silver laced Wyandottes. She does have aracaunas in the incubator but that is a wait. Starting to get excited.
The girls have finally lost the plot completely. This morning there was a ruckus in the pen so I went out to investigate. Ha'penny was running up & down the stairs screaming. Aoife was running round in circles screaming. Every so often she'd launch herself @ the wire & try to perch on the edge of the framing. Morrigu was screaming. Luna had her loud complaining voice on. I eventually twigged that Aoife & Ha'penny desperately wanted to climb into the straw bin, which they could see & which had the lid invitingly open, to lay & were prepared to attempt to go straight through the wire to reach it!I'm tempted to move the silly thing right into the coop! Everyone has been using it if they can get to it.
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They eventually settled for the nesting boxes.
I went to gather up the eggs & Soda, Hepzibah & Wrold had divided the eggs between themselves & were happily coddling them. No~one owned the eggs they were on.Straight off the platform & into the pen. How she landed in one piece I will never know. I felt the ground shake when she landed! Everyone is now more or less in the run & all is quiet on the chicken front.
You really need to write a book ..."Ribh's D'Coopage: My Chicken Memoirs" by @Ribh ...I'd buy the first copy...of course I would want it signed! 
Yay...I'm so excited for you! I can't wait to see them!Oh. My. Goodness. I have new girls arriving on Friday! I can't quite believe this is happening so quickly. The only thing Natasha doesn't have right now are aracaunas so...2 Japanese bantams ~ a splash & a birchen; 2 frizzle bantams that I think she said were Belgian, 2 silver laced Wyandottes. She does have aracaunas in the incubator but that is a wait. Starting to get excited.
Aw, poor baby.Luna is stressed.
This is one of the worst stress shells I've ever seen here.
Her sister's death, Lavender's death & now both Hepzibah & Soda in Broody jail leave Luna the most senior hen in the big coop. I don't think she is fancying the position.
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Dorothy sometimes has trouble creating eggshells. I was direct dosing her with calcium for awhile, but I was afraid of frying her organs and the calcium (seemingly) stopped working. I figured perhaps it was an absorption problem and ended up shredding zucchini for manganese, which can help calcium absorption. It seemed to help! Maybe worth a try?
As @BY Bob says, getting new friends helps with losing the old.
Normal today so things must be more settled.
I'll try this. Zucchinis we have.
Thanks WhoDat.Oh my gosh Ribh.. I am far behind but saw that you lost Lavender!? I’m so sorry.... could you please post pics and names of who you have now so I can keep up? If you are feeling up to it
I will wait till Saturday as I now have new girls arriving Friday & a few things I will need to do to make sure the small coop is ready for them. At least this lot are mostly bantams.
This is good news.
