Ok, so yesterday Bramble was still rather muddy, so I decided to give her a bath. I ran a bowl of water and took her in the utility room and put her in the water. She was not impressed and clucked and flapped around, and started the others off. The all stood by the run door clucking in sympathy. Any way she started to enjoy her wash, the water was brown when I finished, and I wrapped her in a towel and took her in the kitched and gave her feathers a blow dry. That was when I noticed she has a bald strip on her stomach, and shoulder.
Possibly a partial moult, but she's only about 25 weeks old, a bit young for moulting. Clarice is being a real bully to Bramble, going out of her way to peck her and really jumping on her and pulling feathers.
Today (5th) I rolled back the omlet fence from across the middle of the run. Its nice to see the whole run again. It means no one gets trapped anywhere. Bramble laid a small white egg today, and Ive started collecting hers and Spices eggs and Im going to blow them and paint them to sell next Easter. I wish I'd thought of it before, because Ive thrown away so many eggs! The girls are going to bed before 7pm now.
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