The bumble foot occurrence has brought to light a puzzling error. Somehow we had two hens marked with a green and yellow band on the left foot. Wha? We don’t have two Sunrises, what the heck happened? To solve the mystery, we did a chicken health check, because that is a time when we separate the checked from the unchecked and handle each bird separately. The health check also revealed that we had another hen with no bands. We weighed, checked under wings for parasites (all clear), checked vents (two with dirty bums, which is down from last check), and checked feet. We found two more hens with bumble foot, and two that we soaked their feet in epsom salts to make sure it was mud and not bumble foot. Both “Sunrises” have bumble foot, but based on weight and temperament, we figured out that one was Magic, and took her extra yellow band off (still no clue why she had it). The bandless hen was Cockatrice. We soaked and removed the bumbles and wrapped up the treated feet. Navi still has a large crop, but it is not squishy. Chickens that showed weight loss last time have gained again. It was certainly the most intense health check we’ve done to date! Whew!