The last few days she has looked poorly doing the usual chickeny thing of hiding under a bush and not moving a lot so I was keeping a close eye on her ...but she rallied round and yesterday had a really good day (almost like a swan song )but this morning I found her in the coup just like asleep . Her eggs in the last few weeks had got very thin and I think it was a broken egg that did it .
We have had her just over two years and she was the smallest chicken I had ever seen although she was supposed to be 20 weeks at least and always was way behind the others in size .She was always thin ,always scraggy and had no feathers on her head at all ever ,even a bit off the top of her comb ! The other thing that was unusual was that she did not have a voice at all.If she tried to churp nothing came out .She always the bottom of the pecking order.When worms were dug up she was not interested and would wander off and eat the pellets while the others were not interested . She was always a follower and not a leader and was happy and content on her own ,sitting by my patio door watching my every move..
She was my favourite always as she was I think the runt of the litter and i always bat for the under dog . I was just pleased that during the night my two remaining girls did not touch her . I will miss her more than any of the others. I have lost chickens before but losing Rosie has really upset me .
We were planning to get two new girls in late march but now i think that needs to be brought forward as my two remaining lovely girls should not be on their own for too long .What do others think?
Does any one know of a reliable breeder in the High Wycombe area ?
