@Yorkshire Coop
Hi Kim
Vippy is going from strength to strength thanks and eventually eating a bit of grower now thankfully, although she still wants her scrambled egg too. She is definitely eating with more gusto which makes me happy. She is out in the sunshine in her little cage next to her palls at the moment and could easily go back in with them but she seems intent on eating fibrous material again as soon as she has the opportunity and I really don't want to have to do repeat surgery on her and I can't possibly remove every scrap of straw from the pen particularly whilst they are confined....there just isn't room for me a bag and rake and all of them together, so it looks like I have a house chicken for several more weeks!
Oh Wow! I didn't think Harry could be hyper like that too! He always sounds like such a good lad. At least you know that the company of another horse will calm him down though. With mine it is the opposite and makes them twice as bad. I hope you are able to borrow a steady horse if you can't find someone to go out with you next time.
I'm still resisting setting eggs at the moment. The fact that the eggs that I would have wanted to hatch have dried up for some reason or the hens are in a pen without a cockerel or multiple roosters of the wrong breed, helps me resist temptation, as well as the potential wrath of my sister...eek!. Everything is so chaotic with this lock down and since it has taken so long to settle each pen into a reasonably happy equilibrium, I really don't want to start chopping and changing things now and having them fighting again, just to perhaps get some eggs that are worth hatching. Am I right in thinking the start date for the Easter Hatch a long would be 25th March....judging by my BYC calendar....to hatch for Easter Sat (15the April) or do they aim for the Thurs before Good Friday? That seems a long way off to be planning it just yet! I struggle to look beyond the end of my nose let alone planning a month and a half ahead! I doubt my broody will remain so for that long or that it would be fair to let her do so, but I haven't attempted to break her yet, so I'm probably still hedging my bets.
Must get back out there now and do some more chores whilst the sun is shining. Hope it is shining on you too....we have been so lucky here with the weather compared with the rest of the country in the past few weeks particularly. It's positively hot in my poly tunnel today!
Best wishes
Barbara
The 8th annual BYC Hatch a Long! 
I'm in the "Higher Risk Zone"
Set date is 25th March so they hatch the day before Easter Sunday Barbara 
You know so you can be organised 
