Tough Love

Not long after the picture of the chicks was taken, the mum decided that she had too many and that some must be intruders. MrRainy rescued the first chick she decided to reject, and while he tended to the graze she'd left on the side of its head she nearly killed a second. And so it went on, although she only actually hurt those two.

Consequently, we now have seven little chicks under a heat lamp in our bathroom. One of these has been named Blind Pugh because of the damage she did to him. He's getting much better, but still looks like he's wearing a crash helmet (in fact, when MrRainy's not around to defend the chicklove of his life, we do call it CarCrash). He's got most of the use of one eye back and our fingers are all crossed about the other, but it seems like a rather optimistic finger-crossing.

Meanwhile, mummy chicken has a brood of five that she recognises as her own and they are all very happy together. One of the more shocking incidents in ChickenWorld for us, nevertheless.