Shrinking lumps and breaking broodies

(With gratuitous chooks-roaming-the-garden photos.)
A good day in ChookeNZ-land! (Although you might want to skip the next paragraph if you’re of a queasy disposition.)
We took Poppy to Veronica today for another check. We’re winning! She’s on her third type of antibiotics (twice daily this time), with us cleaning the caseous pus out of her mouth every [...]

Frida, still bionic.

Well today was the day that we hoped Frida would be able to have her final bit of metal removed. Unfortunately she’s still not well-healed enough for that – probably not helped by the fact that she’s laying regularly! Oh well. We’ll take her back in three weeks’ time, and see how things look then.
In the interests [...]

A mixed blessing: Venus is back laying

Actually she’s been back since the 11th, but with Venus you don’t want to speak too soon. She is the queen of strange laying behaviour, popping out shell-less eggs with monotonous regularity at times. And indeed the first egg she laid this month seems to have been a thin-shelled ‘involuntary overnight emission’ (as we call eggs [...]

Catching up on ChookeNZ

Along with all the new pages and updates of late, we’ve added quite a few back-dated posts about happenings in July. Check out the following, if you haven’t already spotted them:

Claire returning to laying with a strange egg.
Bessie having proper moult for the first time, and in the depths of winter too.
Claire having sexuality issues.
Lily [...]

Another ChookeNZ page update

Continuing the (early) spring spruce-up of ChookeNZ, we’re pleased to announce that The Egg Pages have been updated for the first time since December last year.
Four more double yolkers have been recorded; Ella’s 26 consecutive days laying feat given its due recognition; and nearly 500 more eggs added to the chooks’ totals.
On that subject:
The total number [...]