Chicken news
Big news this week is that Naughty, the chick who we had our doubts about, finally proved that he is indeed very much a boy, by trying to crow … at 4:30am.
Luckily there’s an easy way to reduce the problem, you shut the hen house door after they’ve gone to bed and don’t open it in the morning until a more civilised hour when the neighbours can be expected to already be awake.
That said there’s no way we could keep him so I put a post on Freecycle to find him a home. Friday we took some last photos, put him in a cardboard box and drove him off to his new life.
The run is a good deal quieter now but Audrey took the loss with good grace and at least he’s out there alive and strutting his stuff with a new group of hens rather than waiting out a last couple of weeks before death.