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<\/a>Pepper<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Dotty<\/p><\/div>\n
I don’t suppose they remember me but there again they did let me get close to them which the other chickens and the cockerel didn’t.<\/p>\n
The feathers have grown back on Dotty’s head whereas when my husband last saw her, her head was still bald. She is moulting and has lost most of her tail but I remember her looking just like this last year.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Dotty<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Pepper with some of the other hens<\/p><\/div>\n
It was good to see Pepper mixing easily with some of the other hens.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Pepper and Dotty together<\/p><\/div>\n
They still seem to stick together which is rather nice. I love Dotty’s crossed legs.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Pepper in the foreground and Dotty in the background<\/p><\/div>\n
Pepper has her bottom feathers back in so despite the moult they do seem to have got their missing feathers back which is a really good sign.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Claude the cockerel<\/p><\/div>\n
This was closest I could get to Claude the flock’s cockerel.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Some of the geese on the farm<\/p><\/div>\n
I felt so happy to see them free ranging happily on the farm. I feel this environment is much more suited to them and how ever long a life they have here it will have been a happier one than in an enclosed run.<\/p>\n
It is so good that they are together too as it would have been heartbreaking to have them separated. Seeing them again reassured me that I had done the right thing re-homing them on this farm. They looked so happy scratching in the meadow and grazing on the grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday afternoon my husband was going over to the farm where we get our disposable supplies from and where we re-homed Pepper and Dotty. He asked me if I would like to go with him and see if I could … Continue reading