Welcome to Florence et Ermintrude
| I hope Lesley does not mind me posting these pictures in here... Well first of all, I have some pictures of my 2 new hens. Florence and Ermintrude. I think that Florence is a really nice, fitting name so thankyou to Egluntine for the suggestion!  Florence:  Florence has a bad leg. It is quite badly bruised and therefore she stands on one leg and only just manages to hop around. John and Monica assure me that she shall get better soon which is good news! Ermintrude:  Ermintrude is the baldish chicken in the picture above (middle) she looks white and has very little colour in her. Despite her lack of plummage she is very lively, she was so brave that she jumped the fence between John and Monica's hens and the new rescue hens to join in with the established flock! Fortunately we resuced her before she recieved some unwanted attention from Albert the cockerel and of course any other bully hens!  Here is a picture of the pair of them together:  Yesterday was very cold and there were several hens who were effected by the weather due to their lack of feathers, here they are:  John and Monica are now using the Eglu Cube as a henspital for any ill hens. At the moment it is occupied by one blind hen and one hen with egg peritionitis: Tilt your head for this one!   Bless them! Not a bad day. Lesley was very prompt which is what we like! We only had 2 people who did not arrive before the 2pm deadline, but one phoned to tell us they were running late and the other was only half an hour or so late. The weather kept out for us as per usual, I just hope that Florence and Ermintrude are ok with the winds tonight...  Martin |
