Hyacinth passed away


Hyacinth seemed to be improving yesterday evening, but when we got up this morning we found her curled up dead. She had apparently passed quite peacefully in her sleep, we estimate four hours or more before we got up. It’s unlikely she was awake when she left us, given that it was night-time and chickens are only active in daylight hours—put them in darkness whenever, they go to sleep.

She’s our first chicken loss. She was, of course, one of our first hens to arrive, one of four ex-battery hens, in February of this year.

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Friday, July 18th, 2008

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Our poor girls! Damn this country and its crazy weather!


11 July 2008: oh, how it rained!

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Friday, July 11th, 2008

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