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A personal blog based on my morning musing with my ex-commercial hens.
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Facing the Future
Today was a big day at Cluckingham Palace. The youngest girls ventured out for the very first time. Venus didn’t hesitate. She marched straight out like she owned the place and immediately tried to join the older hens. Unfortunately, the big girls – particularly Ems and Sapphy – were not entirely thrilled with this bold…
Changes – Valentines edition
The new girls – The Valentine Crew – arrived on Valentine’s Day. My lovely husband drove over an hour each way to collect them from Harrogate. Their day had started much earlier. They’d left an organic farm in Wiltshire at 8am, travelled for eight hours, then been checked over before making the final journey home.…
The Roles We Play
Since Princess Layer passed away, we’ve been trying to integrate Pumpkin back into the flock. On paper, this should be simple. Pumpkin is by far my largest hen, now the oldest with Princess gone, and she has seriously scary spurs that appeared rather suddenly years ago. By all the usual rules of flock dynamics, she…
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