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| Little Chick |
Such a shame! Another one of
the 15 chicks had chirped its last chirp.
All three survivors were missing this
morning and I suspected one was missing yesterday as well but became distracted
with other things and forgot to look for it. I found it this afternoon
underneath a bush in the back garden. No obvious sign of injury so I don’t know
why it suddenly gave up the ghost. It was the biggest one as well, which makes
it even odder. I had thought the littlest one was a little under the weather
and would not have been surprised to have found it lying feet up. I did a search of the grounds and eventually found
the other two little ones, in the long grass, on the other side of the drainage
ditch, by the caravan. They did not come in for either feed today so I am not
holding out much hope that they will survive either.
On the up side…They must be
feeling happier about the new hen house as egg production is going up. There
have been about seven a day for the last few days. We sent every last egg we
had away with Iain and Sam just a week or so ago and, even after a few egg
meals, we already have another three dozen sitting there. Eggs for tea again!
Redhead is still laying behind the oil tank! Daft chook. She is laying almost
an egg a day though which is pretty good for a home bred chicken.
The sheep leather had been
sadly neglected over the last couple of weeks. I simply have not been able to
stretch it and pull it about and it has just been sitting in the porch. I
decided to give it a good stretch today and was pleasantly surprised at how
supple it has become. It was so much easier to stretch. I suspect that the
moisture content of the air in the porch, now winter has arrived, has a lot to
do with it. I had wondered if they were too dry to stretch properly and had
sprayed them with water a few times, but the oils had just prevented the absorption
and it had mostly run off.
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