Posh

Today we got our new egg boxes - pink of course! We have made labels to go on them too!

Pecking

Wellllllllllllllllll as we are not sure why Hazel is pecked and Bald we decided to cover the girls in Red Mite powder - not easy. The man suggest taking each hen dangling them upside down, the only struggle for 30seconds and sprinkle it everywhere! Like I'm gonna do that!!!!! So we picked each girlie up and sprinkle them as much as we could......

Next time we might try the pillow case technique, where you put them in, head out of course, then sprinkle and shake!!!

We have also sprayed them with Ukadex anti peck spray. Excellent idea if if didn't smell so foul!!! It took us days to recover!! Cilit bang wouldn't get it off my hands and the clothes went straight in the machine!

Coops went for his usual sniff of the feathered botty and got the shock of his life!!! Which would be really funny if his face didn't smell of the stuff now! He has had many washes and it's still REALLY bad!!!! lets hope it wears off soon...

Hazel though has a bit of regrowth and looks like she has a beard on her bum !

Hazel's bum emergency

So I trudged up to the girls before they went to bed and shock horror, Hazels bum was bleeding!!!!!! Real blood, not good .......... I picked her up to have a look only to find out that she was BALD!!!! double shock.

We brought her in and gave her a gentle bath in the kitchen sink with cotton wool and Ecover (nice) and put her in a box with some shredded paper and she spent the night in the shower in the dark - bless.....

She went straight back in the next morning with a purple bum after being sprayed with Gentian Violet and Coopers spray that stops him chewing his feet!! Calm has been restored.....