OUR WORLD & Nature Notes - The Chicken Saga Continues . . .

Second day and they are happy and healthy and fluffy

enjoying a little outdoor time

tiring themselves, doing a little preening and  settling 

down for a nap.

Two days later while I was away for a couple of hours,

fate stepped in again.

This time not to save them from a watery grave but

to take one that the goose had not managed to drown.

The silly little one had got itself soaked in the small water dish

with just a little water in it.

When I got back, at first I could not even find it, this tiny 

sodden bit of something in the bottom of the box on it's last 

few breaths. Hypothermia had taken it's toll.

It died peacefully being warmed my my Reki hands.

The other knows both my foot fall and voice and would 

love to nestle into my hair but will have to do with the two 

exchange blankets I knitted for it so one at least is clean while 

the other is being washed.

In five days it has grown little winglets that let it safely 

flutter to the ground.

Whichever sex it turns out to be, it will be a welcome addition 

to the chicken coop.

Hope you all have had a less traumatic week than mine.

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OUR WORLD & Nature Notes - Everyday Farmlife

A pea soup kind of summer morning

with sheep sheepishly wandering back and forth

in the holding paddock between the houses,

after having fly-strike attended to.

We have been beset with a new kind of maggot that is hairy 

and breeds both in wet wool as well as under the skin.

Very nasty!

Meanwhile, the goose who sat on her infertile eggs and 

had a couple of blue bantam eggs added to the mix, has 

brought forth two dear little chicks.

Unfortunately, a goose being a goose, gave them their first 

swimming lesson in the lily pond, from which two wet

and distressed shipwrecked chicks on a rock were rescued

by passing younger granddaughter.

Guess who looks after them now? Yup, they share by bed with 

the electric blanket on 1 on their side, snug and warm in their 

ice-cream container, tucked up in their fluffy blanked I hastily

knitted for them last night.

They feasted on boiled egg

and promptly went to sleep.

I do hope they are a pigeon pair so I get a rooster for my 

three hens and a chicken that lays blue eggs.

Isn't it lovely to be forever living in hope?

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