Bit of sad news -- White Hen (picture above is from when we first had her when she wasn't even fully grown yet) died... She'd been being mopey for a while, plus she was about three years old, which in the grand scheme of chickens, is getting on a bit.
She was the only one who made it past the first winter from the original three chickens we bought (thinking they were all hens) -- one turned out to be a cockerel and one turned out to have various deformities that prevented her from eating properly. She will live on though as she is the ancestor of all our present hens (except for the bantams) and several generations on we are still getting the odd one with the extra toe which is all down to White Hen's Dorking genes...
In other news -- that black ewe lamb that Curly had that I was so excited about -- that's the one in the back here -- and it turns out that she is not really black, unlike the (ram) lamb in front who is. I know it's possible to have black ewes because I have one, but all my theoretical black ewe lambs turn out to be brown! Perhaps No Name Lamb's ewe lamb will stay black...
And in the world of cross-species communications, it seems like Freya and the chickens have finally agreed to share the back garden! :)
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