I have had a very strange experience today! Earlier on today I had Ginger the Hen tap on the back door, squark meaningfully at me ( anyone who has hens will know what I mean!) lead me across the garden to the hen paddock, stand squarking by the gate till I shut away the chicks and let her in, and then she LEGGED it for the hen house and the nest box...to lay an egg....
I think that's quite clever!
Poor Henny! She is loosing her feathers at an alarming rate and is quite miserable and bad tempered with it all....she even had a go at Ginger, her very best mate! When she shakes herself, a cloud of feathers surrounds her.
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You can see her bald bum in this one!
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This one was taken half an hour later by which time she had lost all her tail feathers.
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Feathers litter the floor and run of Cluckingham Palace! Genghis hen peers out of the nest box at me.
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Sweetie is moulting as well, but she seems to have grown new feathers before shedding the old ones, so is not looking TOO threadbare!
This is Number 1 cockerel, he is always the first out and the last one back in the run at night, he refuses to go back in with all the others and I have to chase him round and rounds the Eglu run, until he deigns to go in.....typical male!
Yes, both my hens are moulting at the moment .. one has a bald bum, the other a bald bosom! Most undignified!
ReplyDeleteWillow x
Lovely, gorgeous photographs... and I just love how clever your chucks are!!! Love reading and seeing the photographs of all of their antics!! Keep these brilliant posts coming CW!!!
ReplyDeleteJane xxx