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I created a temporary chicken run for three special ladies being pecked by their sisters. A frizzle, A brahma, and a Warren

#snaps #hens #latte #bully

https://l.prry.uk/snaps/2025-12-11-snap/

Bird flu confirmed in Pontyberem area

In response, the Welsh Government has declared a 3km Protection Zone and a wider 10km Surveillance Zone around the site. The Government says these restrictions are designed to stop the disease spreading and apply to anyone keeping poultry or other birds.

The council said its Animal Health Officers will visit homes, farms and businesses within the zones to check for birds and ensure biosecurity rules are being followed.

Officials stressed that the strain identified is dangerous for birds but presents a very low risk to people. The council added that residents who do not keep birds do not need to take any action.

Cllr Aled Vaughan Owen, Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Decarbonisation and Sustainability, said:

“The identification of avian influenza in the Pontyberem area is very sad news for the poultry keeper involved, however I want to reassure residents that this virus presents a very low risk to human health. I urge the keepers of poultry or other birds in the area to follow the enhanced biosecurity measures.”

He also noted that all bird keepers across Wales remain subject to national prevention rules introduced earlier this month.

Maps showing the zones and full guidance are available on the Welsh Government website.

Map showing the 3km Protection Zone and 10km Surveillance Zone around Pontyberem following confirmation of avian influenza in poultry.

The council has reminded residents that dead wild birds such as swans, geese, ducks, gulls or birds of prey should be reported to the Defra Helpline on 03459 33 55 77 (option 7).

#avianInfluenza #biosecurity #birdFlu #carmarthenshireCouncil #carmarthenshireCountyCouncil #ducks #farm #geese #hens #pontyberem #poultry #protectionZone

A map of Carmarthenshire highlighting Pontyberem, with shaded circles marking a 3km Protection Zone and a wider 10km Surveillance Zone for bird flu controls.

Latest instalment on my blog, dealing with the actual Julia package for the heat exchanger network design code:

https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20251110.html

The code is now available subject to the licensing terms noted in this blog post.

This is the last main blog entry in this series although there may be an appendix post in the future.

#HeatExchangerNetworkDesign #HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis #HENS #Optimization #ProcessOptimization #JuliaLang

#FotoVorschlag: Federleicht // Light as a feather

Meine #Hühner werden aktuell um viele #Federn erleichtert, sie #mausern gerade, was das Zeug hält, und die beiden alten #Hennen sehen ganz gerupft aus (wächst aber jetzt alles schön nach, wie man sieht). Dazu Wind und Regen und seit heute ist auch noch Stallpflicht angesagt wegen der Vogelgrippe. Die Hühnis haben es gerade echt nicht (feder)leicht.
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My #chickens are a lot lighter now, as they're losing so many #feathers. They're in the middle of #moulting and especially the two older #hens look a bit scruffy (their feathers are growing back nicely though, as you can see). There's also rain and wind and as of today, they have to stay cooped up due to avian flu. Apologies for the pity party, I just wanted to ... shed some light on the daily struggles of our feathery friends. 😋

#Lachshühner #Faverolles #hen #Huhn #chicken #Lachshuhn #Mauser #molting #moult #molt #bird #birds #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #ChickensOfMastodon #BackyardChickens #ChickensOfPixelFed #Birdsday #Birbsday

Interior of a well-used chicken coop, featuring two wooden beams used for perching. The floor is covered in litter and a thick layer of feathers, indicating that the chickens are currently moulting.

A light-brown and white hen named Henna, appearing slightly scruffy due to moulting, stands in an outdoor chicken enclosure. There's a new patch of feathers growing on the wing that's facing the camera. The coop floor is covered with wood shavings, and the hen is positioned near a dark plate filled with fruit and vegetable scraps, including carrot peels and apple and pear cores. The enclosure is surrounded by wire mesh, with a grassy area visible in the background.

Rear view of a white and light-brown hen in an outdoor chicken enclosure, showcasing new feather growth on its back and tail area after moulting. Henna, that's the name of the hen, stands on wood shavings, with a plastic ring visible on one feathered leg. The enclosure is surrounded by wire mesh fencing, and another hen is partially visible in the background

A light-coloured hen named Stella with a prominent red comb stands in an outdoor chicken enclosure. There are new feathers growing around the beak. The hen has a full, rounded body with soft, pale feathers, and its feathered legs show some blue discolouration due to a spray I use to mask pecking injuries. The enclosure floor is covered with wood shavings, and other hens are partially visible in the background. The area is surrounded by wire mesh fencing, with a grassy field visible beyond.

Our hens won't drink under a roof. Eat, sleep, poop, and lay eggs, but not drink.
Bowl of water on the back step? Fill 'er up, we've nearly emptied it already.
Bowl of water in the coop (near the feeder)? ABOMINATION.
Waterer on the back step? Sure, why not.
Waterer in the doorway of a doorless and derelict shed in the chicken run? Not going near it; would rather die.
Waterer randomly out in the run? At last, we were DYING!
#chickens #chooks #hens

Cluck evening from my mom's chickens. 🐔

#chicken #chickens #hens

The destructive might of the chicken horde has been held back by the chicken-wire-with-assorted-additions fence for a couple of days now, so I have been bold and sowed shade-loving flowers in the bed under the kitchen window.

It was built as a raised bed, but whoever built it didn't consider that burying the foundation's air vents under a foot or so of soil was not a great idea.

Hopefully the seeds don't mind a heavy clay soil under a thin layer of rich loam.
#gardening #hens #chooks

#FotoVorschlag: Zahlen: fünf // Numbers: five

Die meisten Hühnerrassen haben vier Zehen pro Fuß, aber meine #Lachshühner haben fünf Zehen. Hier sieht man Cleos fünf Zehen deutlich, als sie erschrocken und schreiend in die Luft gesprungen ist, weil Stella sie mal wieder gepickt hat.
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Most chicken breeds have four toes per foot, but my #Faverolles have five. Here, you can see Cleo’s five toes as she jumps up with a start and shrieks after Stella pecked at her.

#hens #chickens #hen #Huhn #Hühner #chicken #Lachshuhn #bird #birds #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #ChickensOfMastodon #BackyardChickens #ChickensOfPixelFed

An older hen with a prominent red comb pecks at a younger hen, which is suspended mid-air in surprise. The younger hen’s outstretched foot, showing five toes, is clearly visible. Both hens have pale cream and white plumage and are outdoors on a patch of grassy ground, surrounded by green grass and scattered leaves in a natural garden setting.

#FotoVorschlag: Verwischt // Blurred

Ich wusste, irgendwann wird dieses Foto von Stella, dem Headbanger-Huhn, zum Einsatz kommen // I always knew I’d find a use for this photo of Stella, the head-banging chick

🤘

#hens #chickens #hen #Huhn #Hühner #chicken #Lachshuhn #bird #birds #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #ChickensOfMastodon #BackyardChickens #ChickensOfPixelFed #Faverolles

A long-exposure photograph capturing the rapid, blurred movement of a light-coloured chicken pecking at the ground in a garden. The chicken’s motion creates a dynamic, flowing effect, with its feathers and head appearing softly streaked. The scene is set in a grassy area, with a wooden and wire-mesh structure visible in the background, likely part of a coop or enclosure. The chicken’s legs are blue from a spray used to mask injuries and aid healing.

My chicken tried to EAT a button right off my shirt! While I was wearing it!
Luckily it was well sewn on, but now she keeps stalking me in the garden with her beady little eye fixed on the button in question.
The button is made of coconut shell, and it's the sort you button a long tab to if you have your sleeves rolled up (I didn't).
Now I'm worried about what else on or about my person she might take it into her tiny little brain to consider comestible.
#hens #chooks #chickens #gardening

📻 ■ La nueva temportada musical de Hens: "Cada vez intento autoboicotearme menos para encontrar inspiración" ■ Hablamos con el cantante sobre "Temporada 3, capítulo 1", su nuevo single y y la etapa musical que está a punto de comenzar
https://los40.com/2025/09/23/la-nueva-temportada-musical-de-hens-cada-vez-intento-autoboicotearme-menos-para-encontrar-inspiracion/?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#musica #rockalternativo #entrevistas #los40 #hens #novedadesmusicales

Hens en las instalaciones de LOS40 / Javier Martínez

Henna and Stella enjoying a sfw #watermelon sugar high (the girls LOVE watermelon!)

#hens #chickens #hen #Huhn #Hühner #chicken #Lachshuhn #bird #birds #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #ChickensOfMastodon #BackyardChickens #ChickensOfPixelFed #Faverolles

A domestic chicken, with mottled white and reddish-brown feathers, is pecking at a half-eaten watermelon on dry, patchy grass. The chicken's head is inside the red flesh of the fruit, which sits in its green, striped rind. The background shows more sparse grass and dry earth.

A fluffy domestic chicken, with white and reddish-brown speckled feathers, stands next to a half-eaten watermelon on dry ground with sparse grass. The chicken has a small red comb, and its beak is slightly open. Another chicken's back is visible in the lower left foreground.

Two fluffy chickens with white and reddish-brown speckled feathers stand on dry, patchy grass, facing a heavily eaten watermelon half. The chicken on the left has its head tilted upwards slightly, while the chicken on the right faces away from the fruit, which still contains red flesh. The ground is a mix of brown earth and green grass.

#wroBookMark
#hENs
EU regulation 2024/2847 #CRA
IEC 62443 series

#CyS #standards
#CEN #CENELEC

Our junior hen stopped laying in the coop! Provoked, it appears, by me mucking it out. No longer able to contemplate a pile of poo while laying, she's been forced to squeeze into a patch of mud under a pile of prunings in order to lay her eggs in sufficiently sordid surroundings.

The senior hen looks like she'll be coming into lay soon, so hopefully her good example will jostle the wayward witless one back into more hygienic habits.
#hens #chooks

Jette is hitting puberty! 🤭
Her comb is growing and both the young #hens are almost the size of the adult #chickens. Maybe we'll get some eggs from her later in autumn or early winter 🤩

#hen #Huhn #Hühner #chicken #Lachshuhn #bird #birds #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #ChickensOfMastodon #BackyardChickens #ChickensOfPixelFed #Faverolles

A young brown and white Faverolles hen stands on a patch of dirt with its wings slightly raised. The chicken has distinctive feathered feet, a prominent beard, and muffs. Its plumage is a mix of fluffy white and light brown, with a brighter reddish-brown head and a small red comb. The background shows blurred green foliage and a wooden structure under soft, natural lighting.

The oviposition saga continues!
The junior hen has continued to lay eggs at two day intervals in Nest Box No.3 (previously used to hold food, prior to the Hedgehog Incidents).

I have been leaving each egg (dated in pencil) until it is joined by its successor, so as to reinforce the idea that this is indeed the right place to lay eggs. (A Kinder Surprise capsule makes an unconvincing decoy, I have learned.)

Yesterday's egg was therefore still sitting in Box No.3 today when the junior hen elected to a) kick it on to the floor of the coop and then b) lay an egg in Box No.1.

Box No.2 houses water and shell, so will probably remain free of eggy deposits.
Probably.
#hens #chickens #chooks

... speaking of friendships 🥹 Looky here, all four in the dust bath, and no one is screeching or picking! Just some friendly bickering and pushing and pulling, because hEy, THaT diRt OVEr thErE iS waY beTTer thAn MiNE1!! 🐔

#chickens #hen #hens #Huhn #Hühner #Lachshuhn #bird #birds #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #ChickensOfMastodon #BackyardChickens #ChickensOfPixelFed #Faverolles #DustBath #DustBathing #SandBath #sandBathing #Sandbad #Sandbaden

#hens

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