Hey devinandfeather that is a nice little brooder set up!
Aaaw Deej211 they are so tiny and cute!
Thank you all for your thoughts on plump chickens … for the first time in months LuLu was having a peck at the oyster shell before bed last night; might be a good sign.
I have to share a story about little, not quite 6 month old KiKi … she does not like to be disturbed when she is laying her egg.
She was hunkered down in the nest box yesterday when LuLu wandered up to see what she was doing; KiKi went ballistic .. open beak, high volume screeching. LuLu just looked at her and wandered off. Anyways, a while later, LuLu wanders past again and KiKi repeats the dummy spit … KiKi is not broody and if this is the way she carries on when she is laying, we may ALL need to move out if she does go broody!
Oh yeah, and she crows ... if she thinks she needs something and is not getting it, she turns on the crowing with full neck extension ... might just have to keep the evil black trespassers around to drown out the very noisy Silkie X Frizzle we have in residence Blame the Crows for that also
So funny. I have had a few that could only be described as pure evil when they go broody. One teenage son gets the job of removing those eggs