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A lovely morning and incredibly warm for the season but the wind started blowing in the afternoon and once the chickens went to sleep it turned into a storm. The chickens all stayed together in the chicken yard this morning, apart from Théo and Piou-piou who went exploring behind the old houses.
I noticed Laure has greyish spots on her wattles. Amazingly I managed to catch her to check and it's not dust, it's like grey fuzz. It could be fowl pox just beginning or some kind of fungal thing.
Then Gaston decided it was time to take his team out and I couldn't get him back in. Blanche was having a hard time without Gaston, being terrified of Kara, so I took her out a bit and put her in the Jerusalem artichokes with Gaston's team. There's a small spot that was covered in hay all spring and summer and is now full of bugs, where the chickens can scratch for ages. She enjoyed herself a lot, but when I put her back in the netted yard she went straight to sleep. I can't leave her in the garden without watching her because her vision is so impaired that she might not be able to hide or run from a raptor.
Lilly is doing great, she’s definitely more active, but not her foot. It has gotten worse and she is slightly limping again. Tonight I tried to open it a bit but almost nothing came out, very quickly it was blood. I’m afraid it is not going to be a quick fix.
Poor Nougat has gotten to the stage of molt where she is terrified of Gaston. She went to sleep in the nest tonight because she didn't want to be next to him, which is their usual place. She's such a hedgehog that I didn't try to get her back on the roost. The good thing is that she will be more quickly out of it. It's the second time she is having such a hard molt and like last year, she reminds me a bit of Myazaki’s yubaba in Spirited away.
However I saw her do an healthy poop for the first time in maybe two months !
Tonight there is a lot of wind. We’re hoping no branch from the linden tree falls off into the house
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Black pullets gang. Merle, Mélisse, Lilly pecking Lulu.
Behind the old houses.
Laure
I couldn't get it to show on photos, but the grey dots on the wattles are grey fuzz, and they are a lot more pronounced in real.
Nougat yubaba.
Kara the bully.
Annette
Gaston and Laure
Blanche
Sequence shot. 1. The decision.
2. Action.
3. Goodbye, girls.
Hello, Alba. You are not thinking of having a quiet nap, are you ? Signed, Kara the bully.
Blanche on the other side.
Léa
I noticed Laure has greyish spots on her wattles. Amazingly I managed to catch her to check and it's not dust, it's like grey fuzz. It could be fowl pox just beginning or some kind of fungal thing.
Then Gaston decided it was time to take his team out and I couldn't get him back in. Blanche was having a hard time without Gaston, being terrified of Kara, so I took her out a bit and put her in the Jerusalem artichokes with Gaston's team. There's a small spot that was covered in hay all spring and summer and is now full of bugs, where the chickens can scratch for ages. She enjoyed herself a lot, but when I put her back in the netted yard she went straight to sleep. I can't leave her in the garden without watching her because her vision is so impaired that she might not be able to hide or run from a raptor.
Lilly is doing great, she’s definitely more active, but not her foot. It has gotten worse and she is slightly limping again. Tonight I tried to open it a bit but almost nothing came out, very quickly it was blood. I’m afraid it is not going to be a quick fix.
Poor Nougat has gotten to the stage of molt where she is terrified of Gaston. She went to sleep in the nest tonight because she didn't want to be next to him, which is their usual place. She's such a hedgehog that I didn't try to get her back on the roost. The good thing is that she will be more quickly out of it. It's the second time she is having such a hard molt and like last year, she reminds me a bit of Myazaki’s yubaba in Spirited away.
However I saw her do an healthy poop for the first time in maybe two months !
Tonight there is a lot of wind. We’re hoping no branch from the linden tree falls off into the house
!Black pullets gang. Merle, Mélisse, Lilly pecking Lulu.
Behind the old houses.
Laure
I couldn't get it to show on photos, but the grey dots on the wattles are grey fuzz, and they are a lot more pronounced in real.
Nougat yubaba.
Kara the bully.
Annette
Gaston and Laure
Blanche
Sequence shot. 1. The decision.
2. Action.
3. Goodbye, girls.
Hello, Alba. You are not thinking of having a quiet nap, are you ? Signed, Kara the bully.
Blanche on the other side.
Léa
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. We didn't take it off last week because it was too wet ! We’re hope to be able to reshape them with heat.
. And because they are old, molting and impaired I can't help feel really bad for them.
