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It doesn't show on the photos even if I try to take them very close. He has black dots on his comb, and bigger scabs on his wattles. If you zoom in as much as possible you can barely see one of the scabs.What do you see wrong with Gaston's comb? It looks great in your pictures of him.
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Before I get to the main even of the day, I noted that Brune was again unsuccessful trying to lay this morning .
It was quite cold this morning (-2 and didn't go higher than 5) and we were tired. So we both decided to nap after lunch (usually only my partner does).
Just before going to bed we heard a strange chicken noise. I looked out the window and saw a huge raptor just in front of it slowly landing, Merle stuck in some wire near the coop, and Piou-piou struggling to go through the chicken nettings. I screamed and clapped my hands at it while my partner ran outside in underwear and sleepers. The thing flew slowly to a tree in our vegetable garden. As soon as I saw my partner out, I also ran outside in underwear (but did put sneakers on) and caught Merle out of the wire. We checked all the chickens were there and safe- they were, all hiding under the laurel tree, except Gaston hiding under the wood shed.
The chickens stayed hidden under the laurel tree all afternoon but after an hour or more, Gastounet was really upset not seeing Piou-piou and the gang, he was running all around the nettings. It took Piou-piou and Merle another half an hour to come a bit outside with him.
Then it started drizzling cold rain- melted snow and all the chickens just wanted to go in the coop. They were roosting half an hour before their usual time.
I don't know what type of bird it was, but we've been seeing all sort of raptors flying around the last two weeks so I guess one saw that no humans were around and gave it a try.