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2 chiks n a roo
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A few months have passed and I wanted to just give an update on Penny (an Jess)
So penny was leftover from the neighbours 3 retired girls of 8+ years, and Jess the mumma of all my other girls..
Well, it's been very interesting.. Penny started to rely on Rhodey an has become strong friends with him, often they spend time together but not a lot.. he's not allowed to crow out of his hut, which he's been doing a bit lately so he only gets a couple of hours out each day. He's a fast learner so he'll go back to normal..
Anyway, Jess is still sick but has good days and bad ones, she got gapeworm in August, stopped laying eggs 31/8 an hasn't laid one since. She's not feeling well enough yet. And getting rid of these damn gapeworms is a real $34&-!!! Especially when she Refuses to drink the wormers water (aviverm) so I've been putting it in her feed 3 days a week. Seems to be working, slowly. I think she's on the turn.. It's cold today but she had to go out anyway, it's helping her lungs.
She looks after Bubba, (now 19wks old) and spends time with her and Penny, they'll end up together. Penny.. well, as an 8+ year old retired girl.. after worming the whole lot, even if they didn't need it.. guess who started poppin a squat an spurtin out breakfast...
Penny!! Been with me for a year now and I don't think she could get any healthier, she hadn't laid eggs for TWO years.. in Oct she started laying 3 days on, 1 off... Not always good shells, a bit gritty at times an pale but most are good, an they're size 8's.. had 1 soft shell, she enjoyed that scrambled with her favourite herbs.. thyme, garlic and basil. She scoffed it down so fast she expects it every day! (Hell no)
It seems, she had never been wormed in her life, and recovering from losing her last sister a couple of months earlier, the good food, comfort, a routine and realising she may just be a chicken, she's got love in her last year's, has jolted her basket of goodies to start the conveyor belt and joined the production crew to give back the best way she can.. through her butt..
But she's super affectionate too. She can't run to me fast enough.
Now I've got 9 laying, an when mumma is feeling better, there'll be 10.. time to find some land to lease...
I'm glad I never rehomed Penny, and that she survived my failed cull attempt back in July.. she really is the definition of a spring chicken...
So penny was leftover from the neighbours 3 retired girls of 8+ years, and Jess the mumma of all my other girls..
Well, it's been very interesting.. Penny started to rely on Rhodey an has become strong friends with him, often they spend time together but not a lot.. he's not allowed to crow out of his hut, which he's been doing a bit lately so he only gets a couple of hours out each day. He's a fast learner so he'll go back to normal..
Anyway, Jess is still sick but has good days and bad ones, she got gapeworm in August, stopped laying eggs 31/8 an hasn't laid one since. She's not feeling well enough yet. And getting rid of these damn gapeworms is a real $34&-!!! Especially when she Refuses to drink the wormers water (aviverm) so I've been putting it in her feed 3 days a week. Seems to be working, slowly. I think she's on the turn.. It's cold today but she had to go out anyway, it's helping her lungs.
She looks after Bubba, (now 19wks old) and spends time with her and Penny, they'll end up together. Penny.. well, as an 8+ year old retired girl.. after worming the whole lot, even if they didn't need it.. guess who started poppin a squat an spurtin out breakfast...
Penny!! Been with me for a year now and I don't think she could get any healthier, she hadn't laid eggs for TWO years.. in Oct she started laying 3 days on, 1 off... Not always good shells, a bit gritty at times an pale but most are good, an they're size 8's.. had 1 soft shell, she enjoyed that scrambled with her favourite herbs.. thyme, garlic and basil. She scoffed it down so fast she expects it every day! (Hell no)
It seems, she had never been wormed in her life, and recovering from losing her last sister a couple of months earlier, the good food, comfort, a routine and realising she may just be a chicken, she's got love in her last year's, has jolted her basket of goodies to start the conveyor belt and joined the production crew to give back the best way she can.. through her butt..
But she's super affectionate too. She can't run to me fast enough.
Now I've got 9 laying, an when mumma is feeling better, there'll be 10.. time to find some land to lease...
I'm glad I never rehomed Penny, and that she survived my failed cull attempt back in July.. she really is the definition of a spring chicken...
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