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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: January 2013
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Thursday, 31 January 2013. The Scots Dumpy was first out of the house this morning. I opened the pop hole at 8am and they were squawking to get on with their day. The two Orpingtons seemed to struggle with balancing on their way down the ramp, they seem too heavy for their little feet and take the ramp cautiously. There was a slight frost this morning and it was very cold. Only the Scots Dumpy ventured out from the roofed run and entered the caged area. The Scots Dumpy came o...
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: February 2013
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Monday, 25 February 2013. The continuing diagnosis of our ill hen. Poor Didee. She was hunkered down beneath the door ramp today, staying out of the wind. I brought her inside today to spend some time with me in the warmth. We sat by a heater and I feed her a mixture of milky bread, wheat and barley seeds and some cheese. She really loved all of it! But I think she has a special like for cheese now! Thursday, 21 February 2013. Red lines and a Bouncing Rosie. Strangely though,...
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: June 2013
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Sunday, 23 June 2013. Our top hen Matilda has gone broody! I can't believe it! And we have no fertilised eggs for her either. She has dropped lots of feathers from under her tummy and is sitting in one of the nest boxes ON NOTHING! It is really a bit funny. So now we have only been getting 3 eggs at the most. Has anyone got any other ideas that they've found successful? I don't know what this will do to the pecking order, as she is the top hen, and is a really gentle leader.
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: July 2013
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Friday, 19 July 2013. The Brood is Broken. Our top hen Matilda has been broody for over a month now and despite all of our efforts to break her brooding we had not succeeded, until now. These aren't my red mites, I got the photo from the internet. Click photo for the source. Matilda being ousted for an entire day and not being able to sit seems to have cured her of her broodiness at last! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sharing my happy life in Scotland. View my complete profile.
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: February 2014
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Friday, 21 February 2014. Colours to tell them all Apart! We now have three hens that are all black bantam Australorps and it can be difficult to tell them apart from a distance. It is easy when we're outside with them, as Olive is the smallest and has scaly, lumpy legs. Queenie is the largest and has an unusual pronged part to her comb, and Rosie is the most confident and always seems to be around us. Rosie has a red ring - rosy red makes sense. Yellow = Daisy, Sunny, Gloria,.
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: November 2013
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Monday, 11 November 2013. We have had some crisp and frosty mornings here lately, with the sun no longer reaching to the top of the sky, but the Autumn time is just beautiful and well worth the colder and darker days. Poor Whitey Didee doesn't seem to get a lot of sun in her isolated pen area, so when I have some time I have locked the others into their run and allowed Didee out on her own to get some sun on her back. Didee is such a tame and fun little bird. Helping her ...
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: April 2014
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Wednesday, 16 April 2014. A Visitor to our Garden. My Mister can be very liberal with the throwing out of seeds to our 5 hens in the mornings. And this is what I think has prompted some new visitors to drop by. My hens didn't go near him, but they didn't seem too afraid either. Here is my favourite photo taken this week, it's Bluebell. Australorps have the loveliest eyes. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sharing my happy life in Scotland. View my complete profile. A large-ish bant...
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: May 2013
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Friday, 31 May 2013. I had regularly been getting 3 eggs a day, but the other day it was down to only 2 eggs. I thought this was strange as all the hens are in lay and I had been thinking that our Scots Dumpy Bizzy Lizzy hadn't been laying lately. So I looked around the garden for a secret nest but couldn't find one anywhere. Then I found it today! It was beneath the yew hedge near our shed. There were 5 eggs stashed away there. But wait til you hear how I found them! Now tha...
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary: August 2013
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Ma Wee Hens - Chicken Diary. Thursday, 22 August 2013. We kept her with the others in the back yard as usual and sprayed her tail with a brown smelly anti-peck spray. We took her back to the vet after the 5 days and this time they cleaned her wound with an antiseptic wash and picked off the scab. Didee was to have a further 10 day course of double-dose antibiotics and I was to clean her wound every day with the antiseptic wash. Friday, 2 August 2013. So this is what the girls are up to lately:. Has been ...
