Yesterday Jackie and I visited each others girls for the last time this year as Jackie and her husband go away to warmer climes for Christmas. Jackie has a friend who looks after her chickens while she is away.
I didn’t get many good shots of the girls as they were not cooperating and kept turning away just as I clicked.
Blossom is looking amazing
Blossom now has ginger neck feathers
Blossom has a fluffy bottom again
Blossom now has all her feathers back in. Her neck feathers have come back ginger instead of pale peach and her little head crest is back as well as fluffy feathers on her bottom and a lovely tail. It is lovely seeing her looking so good after a year of missing neck feathers.
As part of Jackie’s flock she has thrived and away from the previous feather plucking has now had her first proper moult and at last regrown all her feathers.
The same thing is happening in my flock. The girls that had feathers pulled have now moulted and got all their feathers back for the first time in a year.
Jackie and I discussed how lovely both flocks are looking and how well we have done with them. We both know that the difficult decisions we made for our flocks were without doubt the right ones.
I will update with photos of my girls soon as they have changed so much recently. I know that both Jackie and I are really happy with our two quite different but equally beautiful flocks.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
I think we should feel chuffed to bits that one chance remark and a response ended so well.
Looking forward to an uneventful 2015 with you and I taking a shopping trip early in January . 🙂
I too am looking forward to our trip in January to choose two new girls for your flock, then let the fun begin. We are becoming a dab hand at adding new girls though so I know it will all go well.
Yes – job well done by you both – both flocks looks lovely. Mine are at very different stages, with a couple of the wyandottes looking really pristine and reddening up again. It’ll be nice to see some whit(ish) eggs in the nest, alongside the marans’ darkish brown.
Just any eggs would be nice David , I’m not worried about the colour . My young girl Bluebell is keeping us in eggs at the moment . The others are free loaders.
Thank you David. My girls are all looking pretty much pristine except for little Amber who is lagging behind as usual. She is nearly there but still has loose feathers dropping from her breast but no bare patches though, hurrah.
Peaches and Barley are now laying on alternate days so I am now getting an egg a day which is lovely. It will be amazing when all the girls are laying again.