Chooks in the snow

[MaureenHall]

I didn't notice a reduction in egg production today either. The run was really squidgy where they've scrabbled up the snow. Daisy is a bit off colour, she laid a "squashy" yesterday and has spent most of the day in the spare coop huddled up and looking sorry for herself; she's got a mucky bum too so that's not a good sign. Poppy got over-excited when I went out with their corn this afternoon, tried to jump over the water bucket and landed in it instead! She's got lovely clean feet now

[lynda66]

mine decided to have a run round the house day today, i sooooooo wish they didn't poo so much

[CoraxAurata]

Phew - bet that's a relief!
Love the sound of your place. Used to have a place with 2 acres - all on slopes so little hope of veg growing but like you we had loadsa chooks which joyfully demolished all the beautiful terraces constructed by previous owners!

I've got ducks as well..... hubbie keeps threatening to sell them all when I go off to work 'cos they make such a mess...

[frias]

mine decided to have a run round the house day today, i sooooooo wish they didn't poo so much

It does seem strange that more seems to come out of one end, than goes in the other!

[Nicos]

You should see the size of the poo that my broodies make...one big dump a day- sort of size would fill half a tea-cup!!!

( sorry to anyone eating or having a cuppa at the moment!)

[CoraxAurata]

You should see the size of the poo that my broodies make...one big dump a day- sort of size would fill half a tea-cup!!!

( sorry to anyone eating or having a cuppa at the moment!)

Its really quite amazing what can come out of one little hen isn't it!

My poultry mentor (he's been breeding show birds for most of his life and his dad before him - and he's a mature gentleman) and I were dicussing broodies (ducks that time I think) and apparently the smell they give off is actually repulsive to preditors - which is how they survive weeks away from home and come back with a string of yellow fluffies! Well i thought it was interesting - if we could only bottle it maybe we could defend our poultry from foxes aromatically.....

[lynda66]

i think i'd rather they did one teacup full than 5 each per hour, tis a nightmare following em round and i'm sick of the smell of disinfectant lol.

[CoraxAurata]

i think i'd rather they did one teacup full than 5 each per hour, tis a nightmare following em round and i'm sick of the smell of disinfectant lol.

LOL don't you love the little presents they leave you?

[lynda66]

not when they do it, when i'm not there, then walk in it all round the kitchen and up and down the hallway

[frias]

We had a broody last year. That one poo a day smells more than fifty normal ones!

[CoraxAurata]

not when they do it, when i'm not there, then walk in it all round the kitchen and up and down the hallway

chook art!

[littlemark]

Our hens are seriously unimpressed with the snow. I opened the pen this morning and it was as if there were a force-field in front of the door, wouldn't budge from the tiny bit of bare grass into the snowy outdoors. The only way we could coax them out was to clear the ground, and even then they stuck to us like glue.



Mark

[lizzylemon]

Daisy is a bit off colour, she laid a "squashy" yesterday and has spent most of the day in the spare coop huddled up and looking sorry for herself; she's got a mucky bum too so that's not a good sign. Poppy got over-excited when I went out with their corn this afternoon, tried to jump over the water bucket and landed in it instead! She's got lovely clean feet now

Poor Daisy ope she gets better soon. Would love to have seen Poppy, bet that gave her a start

[MaureenHall]

Well Daisy's still a bit off-colour but she's drinking ok and pecking at a bit of food too so fingers crossed. I think Poppy's dignity was a bit bruised but it really was so funny to watch, I wish I'd had a camera at the ready at the time.

This morning the girls were really reluctant to come out of the coop but there wasn't the "gang-plank-pile-up" like a couple of days ago

The pics are probably a bit blurry, I was shivering when I took them today

[janeyo]

my girls didn't want to come out today! Huddled together under the shelter eating their porridge!