AFTER the whirlwind of the 2023 breeding season, things are starting to slow down. It is a bit of a relief. For the past four months I've been out every morning filling up the finger drawers with condition seed and the eggfood dishes with softfood. And when the chicks started to arrive, this became a three-times-a-day task as I made sure the hens had plenty of food to give their greedy brood.
Now that the chicks have been weaned, their rations have been reduced a little, so that the older chicks only get the eggfood in a finger drawer once a day. As I write, I still have a nest
