Miyazaki Jidori heirloom hen chick Silky brooding hen mother.. The chick's sister was dead, looked a bit flattened, in the corner the other morning. This one seems to be doing ok though.. This hen chick hatched a few days, maybe a week, after the other one..

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2 60-80lb dogs

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#FotoVorschlag: Federleicht // Light as a feather

Meine #Hühner werden aktuell um viele #Federn erleichtert, sie #mausern gerade, was das Zeug hält, und die beiden alten #Hennen sehen ganz gerupft aus (wächst aber jetzt alles schön nach, wie man sieht). Dazu Wind und Regen und seit heute ist auch noch Stallpflicht angesagt wegen der Vogelgrippe. Die Hühnis haben es gerade echt nicht (feder)leicht.
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My #chickens are a lot lighter now, as they're losing so many #feathers. They're in the middle of #moulting and especially the two older #hens look a bit scruffy (their feathers are growing back nicely though, as you can see). There's also rain and wind and as of today, they have to stay cooped up due to avian flu. Apologies for the pity party, I just wanted to ... shed some light on the daily struggles of our feathery friends. 😋


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One morning 2 or 3 chicks made their way through the wire mesh and out of the cage and were out on their own. Lucky no cats were about. The hen was all anxious and pacing inside, probably disturbing her 2 peer hens in there brooding eggs. After a busy day it's easy to forget about adjusting the mesh overlaps so the chicks can't fit through the holes. You're just glad you remembered to close up the cages at all.. Eventually some sort of more sage-like system will have to come about, like a dog that can be trusted not to eat the chicks, or a nested fencing situation.

Now that I think of it, the egg-farmer that put his dog in the chicken cages at night probably only did it for big cages with 80 adult birds. I'll have to ask him. If Maron gets knocked up I'll have to be intensive about having the puppies hanging out with chicks a lot.. Maybe I can still train Maron to live with chicks??

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It's getting chilly around here, so the chicken run will be serving a dual purpose as a greenhouse. I planted two valencia orange trees to make use of the chicken fertilizer. #backyardchickens 🌱 #permaculture #silvopasture #agroforestry #compost #fruit #fruittrees #homegrown #eggs #forest #trees

This morning 🌄 I thought 4 of these chicks were eaten. They weren't in their box this morning.. I wonder where they slept.last night?
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Last Day Chicks.. well one of the 10 is still around.
I had to adjust things for the newly broody hen and the hen with the Jidori Rooster chick so I rushed 5 of the 6-group over to a friends' place. The 6 couldn't jam into the small pace with the JidoriChick's hen was so one was up high in the middle of the yard on a plastic planter, one was at the entrance in the rain and one was jammed between the brooding box and a big garden rock. The garden rock bird was suprisingly active in the dark rain and jumped away, ended up on the other side of the yard in an apple box I could close up with dollar (100 yen shop) wire mesh stuff. He's luck because the four chicks in the box next to him disappeared. I think a weasel wormed in from the back between some wired mesh and the box.. Maybe if I had left the baby rooster uncaged the weasel would have been content with just him and I'd sill have 4 chicks to give away on Sunday? Probably not.. The rooster chick would be gone, I still wouldn't have notices the weasel entrance to the 4 chicks and just would have lost more birds.. Glad I didn't leave the other 5 chicks out on their own.. Ah well.. It's sad but every once in a while we have to give back to the local ecology I guess. It must have been a wild weasel and not a feral cat, so that's good, I guess. But why can't they just take one, why does it have to be all 4 or all 15!?!?
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