Chooks'n'Chicks

... although I expect (and hope) that most of you didn't lose too much sleep over it 😂

The sad fact is that my chickens are gone 😔. When it became pretty certain that we'd move to Australia and that I'd have to sell all of my feather babies, I didn't have the enthusiasm anymore to post about them. It was pretty tough and somewhat depressing.

About a month after the last little roo chick left my care, we're still here in our old house and in fact, I'm not sure when i will be able to follow my husband who is already as good as gone across the ditch. The garden had to be pimped up a bit though, so the chookies were the first to go.

There is a good chance I won't have the opportunity to get a new flock anytime soon. While the laws and regulations in Aussie seem relatively chicken friendly, properties often aren't. If i can't afford them a large grazing area, I don't really see the point in keeping any chickens.

So, I guess, this blog is officially on indefinete hiatus. Was fun while it lasted 🙂

Chickoletta decided that she is ready for round two and went broody again! Not sure if that’s the best idea because it’s always so taxing on them and in addition to that, she chose the improv shelter as her nest!

Well, I decided to just let her do her thing and so I did my best to upgrade the temporary chicken house a bit. I put a couple of nails in some of the boards to ensure better rain and wind protection and changed all the mulch and hay. The improv shelter wasn’t built for this tho. It was meant as a sleeping spot for my youngsters during the warm and dry summer nights.

Right now, it’s still sort of summer, but the wather is really shit - which is probably how she went broody in the first place. I find that many of my chickens go broody if for some reason they were forced to sit put in one spot for extended periods of time. In this case, she was hiding from several days worth of rain and pretty much got stuck. 😅

Next challenge will be to find some eggs this late in the season. I mean, there always /some/ eggs out there, but ideally, it would be a breed that is interesting for me as well, lays well and is easier to sex than my Araucanas 🤣

Wish me (and Chickoletta) luck 😉

Series 3 Part 1

It's baby time again!!!

I found some surprise babies this morning! They were sort of expected, of course, but they were also a surprise, as they were a little early!

I was terrible this round of incubating... three times, I let mummy Hennrietta out for a dustbath, some greens and a little sunshine and FORGOT all about her! So three times, she spent four hours off the nest. At first I panicked, but then I read, that all will be good, I might just see a delay in hatching. Well, I didn't 😂 They already hatched last night and were, in fact, early 🙃