179. Chickens in the turkey house . . .

It's been all change this week.

We moved the chicks from our boiler room into the chicken house. A bit of a relief because they were beginning to stink! The plan is for them to have a week in the chicken house, then a week in the house and the run. Hopefully, they will be then ready for the big wide world.

 




Meanwhile the chickens are having a holiday in the turkey house (complete with temporary nesting box) - this has confused them somewhat, like Victorian factory-workers wondering what to do at the seaside. In two weeks the bantams will join the chicks, and the warrens will become coq-au-vin.

The turkey house has made us think of Christmas - I phoned the breeder, and arranged to pick up the poults in about a month. So, orders for Christmas Day now being taken!

Inspecting the bees this week was not so much fun. No sign of the Queen (green spot, number 19). Nor any brood. Just a few Queen cells with grubs in them. Not sure what the grubs are  - drones from laying workers, or just possibly new Queens? Really not sure, but the colony did not look good - not many bees, lots of drones and no young. Not sure how to turn this around.

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