Bush eggs: two. Nest box eggs: none. Feed hopper: so low it’s not funny.
Arggh! Late spring and suddenly everyone is crawling! I don’t mean on their hands and knees – chickens don’t have hands and our knees face backwards. No I mean crawling with mites, lice and other unmentionable vermin. It was quite funny really, we all woke up terribly itchy, looked at each other, knew EXACTLY how everyone was feeling and all at once we bolted out of the house and were up to our necks in lovely cleansing dust bath sand before you could say, “Chicken Little was incredibly naive”. And all this before breakfast!
I feel much better and a lot less itchy now, but we will have to be vigilant for the next month or so.
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