Now that Helena has recovered, she comes up to me and looks at me with her sweet eyes as if to say, "hi, my good friend, how are you". She ran when she saw me, when she was recovering. And then the same thing started showing in Rachel (the drunkin walk). Now
then I had to think it was something causing the walk that lead to Helena's other injuries. I talked to my practitioner again and she suggested a deficiency of some kind. When I asked my feed specialists, they said- niacin. It turns out that chickens can eat waterfowl food but waterfowl can't get enough niacin in chicken feed since chickens don't need as much niacin. So now we know. Low niacin apparently effects different individuals differently, There wasn't a problem in the last two years. Since we caught Rachael early, she didn't have the severeness that Helena did.
In other news, the sheep are enjoying a cool day after 3 or 4 hot ones. Pumpkins are taking over the hugels.
The 2 chicks are much bigger than mom and can fly over the fence. They still don't mingle with Donald, Red, and Black much. Red doesn't like them and will block their entry to the coop at night if she goes in first. They have learned to try to get in first but occasionally I have to offer an alternate solution.
Headed over to the fiber shed for the afternoon since finally it isn't too hot. I made a 2 liter bottle air compressor but I am not sure it helps that much. When I was scrummaging through a nearly empty recycling bin with our recycling attendant we had a hard time coming up with 16 2 liter bottles. The ones we did find were tonic or seltzer (except for a couple). We were both surprised we didn't find more Coke and other diet sodas. He then theorized that soda drinkers probably don't recycle. Hmm .
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