NAKED CHICKS

Well, what a week its been here in the village, the feathers have been falling off our chickens, coming away in hand fulls!! Linda scoured the internet for possible causes and thought our poor chickens had every disease on the Planet.

Convinced our chickens had Small pox, Beriberi and Legionnaires disease we called the village vet to attend to our poor chickens and possibly administer the last rights!! It turns out that there is nothing wrong with our chickens and they are just molting ready for winter, our chickens never did this last winter, but as the vet said,

“This winter is cold and started very early.”

We thought this was a silly time for our girls to be  molting, a naked chicken is obviously going to be very cold now since its almost December, more internet research produced the “Chicken Jumper.”

Linda knitted a jumper for “Midget” first of all, since she was the most un-feathered of our birds at the moment, buttons fasten the two halves together under the wings, “V” necks at the front, “Polo” necks are so 80’s now 🙂

It was a bit of a struggle to fasten the side buttons, but “Midget” was soon running around showing the other girls this seasons farm fashions.

Next up was “Nora.”

Our girls can preserve their modesty now, and stay warm this winter!!

~ by travelswithmymotorbike on November 28, 2011.