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Meet Maggie!
On Saturday 20th March 2010 our flock of hens had a new addition. Meet “Maggie” our new resident to cluck apartments at the top of the garden. Maggie joins our flock as the only remaining hen from a flock that was ravaged by a fox. Hens are social creatures and hence remaining alone as an only chicken was not really fair. So her concerned previous owners asked if we would take on Maggie. We were delighted to welcome Maggie to our flock.
Maggie has already made friends with some of the ballerina bantams and on checking her after dusk on her first night with us I found her tucked up in the bantams’ quarters with Phoenix, the Lavenders and O2. Her clucking is slightly croaky and she has a few tail feathers missing, but I’m sure in time she will settle down and re-grow feathers and tune in her clucking! If Maggie had not already had a name we were going to call her the ginger ninja. We thought to out run the fox that such a chicken must be like a chicken version of 007!! Trying to get some photos of Maggie exploring the garden today was rather interesting, as she is really rather speedy as you can see below. We’ll keep you posted on her progress.
