Friday, June 29, 2012

RIP Alan

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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