So, is it possible that I have a racist hen? She is totally delighted with her two black chicks, (they aren't all really hers, she just got all the eggs laid in one day by 8 hens), but all the dead ones were pale - is that just a coincidence?
I am not sure if this is good news or not, but when I went to dispose of the dead ones, one of them in fact was not quite dead. It was disgusting as she had pooed on it, but I have given it a bath in warm water and Dove Sensitive, and it is wrapped up in some old bibs in a dish on to of the Aga warming up, and is now cheeping away. OH will have a dicky fit when he gets home and sees it, (I plan to be fast asleep by then) and have no idea what I am going to do with it, but I had to give it a chance.
Is there any possibility if it gets strong that she would take it back if I sneaked it in under cover of darkness, or would that just be silly?
Angus is fine today, thanks for asking, I think he had just got too hot, and upset about his AWOL daddy.