Frida, the bionic chicken

Well Frida went under the knife yesterday, and we’ve brought her home today. She is now a Bionic Chicken!
They’ve had to pin Frida’s leg – essentially a titanium pin is inserted along the bone, with three small screws connecting it to the bone on the inside, and to an external pin on the outside. So [...]

Neroli lays her first egg!

As if to remind us, in the middle of all the stress and guilt and worry about Frida, that owning chickens is more usually about daily miracles … Neroli popped her first egg out! A nice, little 52 g egg. Same sort of colouring as Frida’s eggs – slightly peach-tinted.
She’s been spending time in the [...]

Claire and … cockatrices?

Well we now have a reason why Claire has stopped laying. To add to the chaos and confusion … she crowed today.
Twice.
Yes, really. As in “rooster”. Complete with the whole rocking backward and craning neck upward bit – Jo saw her do it the second time (which was about a minute after the first strangled attempt).
Argh. [...]

Frida and catastrophe

Oh boy. Just when we were staring to think that things might be calm for a while …
For the last week or so we’ve had a bit of temporary run that goes between the house and the hedge – to get to it, they duck out the back door of the run, trot around the [...]

Lily is back in lay

After a week of dropping into dippy-bird whenever either of us so much as gestured in her direction, Madame Lily has resumed laying!
A typical Lily egg too – 61g, very white, with her usual rifling marks down the sides. (What is it that makes those grooves?!)