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A personal blog based on my morning musing with my ex-commercial hens.
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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…
Be beautifully you, to the very end
This week, we finally said farewell to Princess Layer, our oldest hen. Princess arrived pre-Covid, part of my very first batch of hens. From the start, she knew exactly who she was. She served as the perfect second-in-command to our Head Hen, Henrietta—the enforcer, the disciplinarian, the one who made sure everyone else stayed in…
Suffering in Silence
Original post from 2025 Sad news today. Little Athena chicken passed away quietly in the night. No warning. No visible signs of illness. She simply never woke up. Those are the losses that hit the hardest — the ones you don’t see coming. Athena wasn’t demanding attention, wasn’t obviously unwell, wasn’t drawing concern to herself.…
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