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Our little front yard garden incorporates wild plants like mullein, bee balm, and the poke ‘tree’ weaving thru the fence....some were transplants, others volunteers.

Yeah, and I think of straightjackets....but if they had a ‘hennery’ and hogs and gardens, maybe some inmates (yeah it calls them inmates) found some pleasing/meaningful tasks. I guess it depends on whether there were guards standing over them menacingly.

It looks like # 1 was in Fulton

This is my cat, Ollie, up on a ladder last night, flagrantly ignoring the danger sign....

Ah, Lunatic Asylum #2. !!!! Thanks!

This is fascinating, this history I am learning about our area. It was originally called Lunatic Asylum #3, in 1889, but it seems there was positive therapeutic aspects rather than just being a lock up: ” The asylum was physically self-sufficient from the beginning. Spread out across 520...

Ha! In the British show Doc Martin, set in Cornwall, you learn that there had long ago been a mental asylum in nearby Bodmin, so they often use the term, ‘going Bodmin’. Now we’ve got our own Bodmin! I love it!!!!

That doesn’t sound unusual to me. I have a hen that honks like a goose, another that yells like a parrot. Each hen has her own voice....

Today we went to see the Vernon County Youth Fair in Nevada. For those of you not familiar w this town, it is pronounced Ne -VAY-da. (In case you ever go there, you might as well say it correctly.)(Their slogan is Crossroads to Adventure, but there isn’t much there.) Here are just a couple of...

BTW, BYC’s crowing rooster video contest lineup has a Sebright hen crowing... https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/crowing-non-crowing-rooster-video-contest.1532895/page-10#post-25954085

Animals at the Jasper County Youth Fair

Gas dropped below $4 today!

This is my 5 yr old Sebright hen, Moonshine, currently in broody jail. She has never had as much comb/wattles as does @Chicken poppy young bird in question. But, that being said, she HAS crowed before. Sebrights tend to be very outspoken....

I never heard of blossom end rot....knock on wood.....

If a hen, she’s going to lay an egg very soon. Keep us updated, let us know!

It looks like it has a pretty big comb and wattles for a Sebright pullet. Sebright pullets don’t get red combs until right before they lay. As the above post says, all Sebrights are ‘hen feathered.’ Comb and wattles are the only visible indication of a male. That and crowing.

I imagine that most Americans would do equally poorly labeling a map of the British Isles

YES, I think after total isolation from the flock for 3 days, she is so thrilled to be back to the gang, back to normal, that seems to help distract her from broody inclination. I am sure that is part of it.

Caging requires time. Most of my broody hens require 3 days + 3 nights in the wire bottom cage, which is in my basement where it is cooler. This is IF I get them caged right away, as in day 1. I had one that took 5 days. They have food and water in the cage. I place a little fan blowing...