This was awesome. The first experience I had with a ‘hen’ was when my son’s girlfriend gave him a chick around Easter 2013 (Why?!?). I called her Nugget, and ‘she’ became a beautiful rooster. Unfortunately, a neighbor’s dog got him and my son was furious. The dog’s owner was a 95yo man living alone, otherwise it probably would have been more unpleasant.
Now we have 25 acres in the middle of what looks like nowhere, so our friend bought 8 chicks and 2 ducklings in June 2022, after he and my husband built a coop for me a year before. Something picked off 5 of the chicks within 2 months- they free range during the day. I got 6 more chicks in August, lost one and both ducks (male and female) to a hungry pair of dogs dumped in my property.
My husband has decided I get too attached, he is NOT wrong, and we will not be replenishing. Favorite is doing much better, as am I. Still learning, and do not know nearly enough.
And my greyhound was never a racer, or a fetcher, or a hunter, just a lover!
Now we have 25 acres in the middle of what looks like nowhere, so our friend bought 8 chicks and 2 ducklings in June 2022, after he and my husband built a coop for me a year before. Something picked off 5 of the chicks within 2 months- they free range during the day. I got 6 more chicks in August, lost one and both ducks (male and female) to a hungry pair of dogs dumped in my property.
My husband has decided I get too attached, he is NOT wrong, and we will not be replenishing. Favorite is doing much better, as am I. Still learning, and do not know nearly enough.
And my greyhound was never a racer, or a fetcher, or a hunter, just a lover!
