PA Chicken's Blog #15 - Happy Holidays

Devoted Followers,

The girls are enjoying their holiday very much. They like sunshine, and, unlike the rest of us, seem not to care about the cold.

They ate lots of dried mealworms today.

Nugget has (according to the vet) an over-active salivary gland, causing a lump to grow on her cheek, just by her eye. She is being very brave.

Allan-Oreo is broody again. She keeps sitting on eggs instead of getting out in the sunshine with the other girls. We will do our best to snap her out of it.

Miss Coles

PA Chickens' Blog # 14 - the blog is back!

Devoted Followers,

Following a lengthy break, the PA Chicken's blog is back!

Our last post was in July. So, time for a whopping update:

• The girls had a lovely summer holiday... and half term, and Christmas!
• Bog was accidentally stolen by another school! Our girls spent the summer with some other chickens at the farm, and when another school came to get their hens, they picked her by mistake! She may be big and reddish-brown, like most chickens, but we thought it was very sad that this other (mystery) school couldn't identify their own hens! In replacement, we got Shaniqua and Nugget
• Shaniqua's stay with us was cut short by her sudden sex-change. When she began crowing, much like Ghee last year, she had to go before the neighbours complained. Miss Coles has visited her recently and she (sorry, he) is looking very happy (and handsome/masculine)
• Nugget is still with us, thankfully. She has suffered with an over-active salivary gland (very rare in chickens, according to the vet) which has caused a large swelling on her face. Despite this she is still happy enough, and one of our best layers. She lays whoppers, in fact.
• Allan-Oreo had a funny December; she was 'broody' meaning that she kept wanting to lay eggs, even though she didn't need to. She refused to come out of the nest box, even to eat, for quite a while! Luckily she has snapped out of it.
• Omelette and Monkey are the same lovely chickens - no major health or behavioural issues, and plentty of eggs.
• And Hotwings is now... HUGE. She is the biggest hen anyone could ever imagine. We love her.

More exciting news to follow.