I lost Sweetpea yesterday. Not really a surprise. She never regained her mobility despite everything I tried. I think she enjoyed her life, such as it was. She had a good appetite & was always excited for me to lift her out of her crate & settle her somewhere in the pen with food & water close to hand. Even though she couldn't keep up with the flock she would shuffle herself around so when I didn't immediately spot her in the spot I had left her I wasn't worried. Sometimes she managed quite a distance. She could still sunbathe & dust bath & she was undeterred by her disability.
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I am down to 7 hens & Henry. Wrold is sitting. The chicks are due over the weekend. Hopefully they will be hens.
If anyone was going to sit, Wrold would have been my pick. She knows what she's doing. Tootsie & Alpia have both had a half hearted attempt but it is still early in the season & they discouraged easily.
Meanwhile I am still battling stick flea. I was getting really discouraged but I went to pick up more Pestene from our hardware to find they were out. Everyone is battling the horrid things. So when I went into Rocky for more feed I had a chat about the best way to deal with it & make sure I'm doing the right things. I am. I do love a rural produce store. Everyone has animals. Everyone has experience. Everyone is willing to share. I love watching people pick up their bits & pieces for horses or turkeys, chickens, guinea fowl, even pigs!
So under Wrold is one blue egg [hopefully an easter~egger chick & a blue green egg], one Wyandotte bantam egg & a Jap ~ goodness knows what that will look like! I don't know that I'm all that hopfull about Wrold's parenting but @ least she doesn't have the chick killer to contend with.
