Sad to report that Operation: Good Life
has had a bit of a set-back with the untimely death of one of our two
hens, Alan. She fell ill a month ago and neither injections at the vet's
nor a couple of extensive courses of antibiotics have been able to cure
her of the infection or cause her to regain her misplaced appetite. She
was so weak in the end that she couldn't keep her balance or lift her
wings, and had a temperature so severe the vet couldn't believe she was
continuing to cling on - and yet cling on she did, looking wistfully out
at the other chickens roaming around in the garden, until today.
Alan's
survived by Hadrian - who's as noisy, cheeky, boisterous and fun as
ever, and who has developed a fondness for being tickled under his wings
- and Birinus, who, despite her diminutive size, has been laying small
white eggs since the beginning of May at a rate of roughly two every
three days.
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