Well it certainly feels like Winter here - the air is fresh every morning, carrying on throughout the day, but one thing I've noticed is that our ladies have started to moult.
I didn't really know about chickens moulting - especially in Winter!
I mean, what's the point of losing all your feathers when it gets cold!?
Shouldn't it be more reasonable to expect them to lose their feathers when it's nice and warm?
Well anyway, I find it all rather strange - PLUS the fact that they all stopped laying at the same time - weird huh!?
Jo thinks it's because of the very bad storm we had here a week or so ago - it could have been the fireworks scaring them...
...I have another possible reason - they're all lazy wotsits!!
Parading around like they own the place - eating and drinking for all their worth - I mean, it's like they live the high life and have now decided to stop doing the one job they are MEANT to do!
It's not as though they have a pressing schedule or anything - in fact - because it's been sunny and rather warmish weather for the few hours around lunchtime and to mid afternoon, they've even been having excursions out in the paddock - so I have no idea what is going wrong.
I'm going to try and sneak up and get a photo of the moulting ladies - although they won't be too happy showing their 'undergarments' for the world to see I bet!
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