dinosaw
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We have been treating our blue orpington for bumble foot since we got her a month or so ago, (my fault as her feet were filthy and I didn't scrape off the mud to check them properly) every night we spray her with antiseptic and it has been going well with them deflating nicely but she's been none too happy about being picked of her perch at roosting time every night. Anyway she must have had a word because on Tuesday when we went to do it all the birds had squashed up as tightly as possible and one of the ex batts had put her wing over her to protect her, it was very sweet and we did relent for the one night.
It is interesting how birds can stick together at times, the Silver Sussex are an odd lot, they literally stick to each other like glue. If you let them free range they are like a black phalanx all feeding shoulder to shoulder never more than a foot away from each other, so much so that when I let the Count out to meet them he couldn't break in to tread them, they just kept turning in two ranks of two to face him down with him dancing around them.
It is interesting how birds can stick together at times, the Silver Sussex are an odd lot, they literally stick to each other like glue. If you let them free range they are like a black phalanx all feeding shoulder to shoulder never more than a foot away from each other, so much so that when I let the Count out to meet them he couldn't break in to tread them, they just kept turning in two ranks of two to face him down with him dancing around them.
