Harriet laid her 1st Egg!!!!!!!!!!

................. and it was massive man!!! A whopping 53gms!!!! No one else is near that! What a clever girl she is... I wonder it there will be a repeat performance???

Also on a good note Margo laid also!!! Fingers crossed it's not just a one off!

Pecked off!

Sooooooooooooo the wormer arrived and the doseage is per 300 birds, so have had to to many rudementary calculations!!! Basically you cut a grape in half, and coat it in worm powder and Bob's your uncle!!!!

So we dutifully went to the run with 6 bits of grape... a Margo stepped up and took her medicine like a very good girl!!! Then she had Babettes, Hazels and Sweeties!!!!!!! Obviously a new technique was required, so Nick distracted them with a handful of corn while I tried to shove a grape down the remaining 5......

Success!!! But not until there was much pecking of the mummy, Hazel took to sitting on my shoulder and the other took advantage of my hands being full and tried to mug me for what I had left!!!!!

Hmmmmmm will try harder tomorrow, Good job we only have to do it for 7 days!!!!

Think we have worms :-(((

Argghhhhhhhhh................ We think we have a case of worms!!! Inconvenient to say the least. Margo has been on strike for a week now, and as she is really well in herself, scoffing like she's never seen food, and has poo's like i'd really rather not describe, between the Omleteers and our books here we have diagnosed worms... We have sent off for some stuff toot sweet!

Sweetcorn

This is excise for our girls! They love it!

Dust bath

Well with the spring clean, also come the clean dust bath. However, Penny and Margo were not impressed and decided to make their own!!

I'm afraid the pics aren't that clear, but think you can get the general idea!

Spring clean!!!

Well, as saturday is the only sunny day forcast for the bank holiday it was Spring clean day for the girls!!!

We took the cube apart as much as we could and washed it on the lawn with a power washer!!! Thank fully it didn't take too long. Although there was MUCH poo to deal with! We waited until Penny and Sweetie had laid, Penny is up to 45g now, she's such a good girl, and then when mad with a bucket! Coops was loving it as I think he secretly lurves chicken poop!

The girls took it all in their stride and Penny, Babette and Hazel had their normal chat on the high perch. they just love it up there!!!

Worried about Margo

Poor ol' Margo.... we are worried about her....... She hasn't laid since last week. She seem fine in herself, but I'm not sure... I've posted on the Omlet site for some advice, as I know it takes a while for them to get into the swing of things, but this does seem odd....

She has a few symptoms..... she scoffing ALOT, but they do eat more when they start laying, her comb is no longer bright red but pink, and she has poop like water! Not nice..... The concensus is that she may have worms.. I've already ordered some Flubenvet but am kicking myself that I didn't do it earlier as i'll have to wait until tuesday now....

Then we will have to work out how to give a minute amount to each hen on half a grape, and for seven days!!!!!!!!!!! Will be a military operation....... wish me luck!