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    Companihens chickens

    This mornings eglu batch. The calcium in the water seems to be helping again, no broken eggs last few days and black is definitely laying every other day. Hoping greedy will again soon. Not sure why someone laid this all the way back in in the house, not even in an eggbox Then these 4 later...
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    Companihens chickens

    We call these plants elephants ears, I'm not sure if they have another/proper name 🤷‍♀️ I have several spots of these in the flower beds around our garden, every year the chickens devour the leaves until there is nothing but the thick stems left. They go crazy for any bugs they find around the...
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    Companihens chickens

    Another funny thing about Percy is sometimes... fairly often after he does a big wing flap/stretch his wing and tail get tangled up. I was so concerned the first time I found him like this in the run. Thought his tail was broken or something and he is a bit wobbly sometimes since his funny head...
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    Companihens chickens

    Yes that's interesting... there hasn't been any rushes at each other. Just the eyeing up and flapping wings.. walking away a few steps and back waking ground and clucking etc. I haven't seen this in the run. It seems only in the garden. But that said I don't observe them in the run a lot...
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    Companihens chickens

    You see in these images what Percy and Armand do sometimes when they're close in the garden. They peck and cluck at the ground (its different to what they do when they're calling hens) and circle each other. It really does appear as though they're taunting each other and I always feel at any...
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    Companihens chickens

    9 eggs today. And the cockerels started crowing at 5.30. It had been after 6. It was a beautiful blue sky day today and the automatic door on the chicken house opens at 7. But they were all making a racket and wanted out at 6.30 this morning. It seems spring has sprung for the chickens, crowing...
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    Companihens chickens

    8 eggs yesterday. Cleopatra has started laying now, as expected due to Percy's behavior round her recently 😌 she lays teeny tiny eggs! I must weigh one sometime again. So that's all the bantams laying again. I'm happy about that, so far finishing their molt and coming back into lay they have...
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    Companihens chickens

    Please don't get me wrong I wouldn't let him harm my boys dangerously. Yes they have been scratched but nothing serious. I agree it's about teaching healthy respect. If my boys kick a ball at the hens or throw something then yes they can absolutely expect the cockerels wrath. I want them to...
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    Companihens chickens

    I can well imagine. Percy was like this for a bit and I only went in the run with a stick or something to make sure he'd keep himself to himself. He stopped going for me ages ago and seems to always accept me around now. But he's always gone for my 2 boys... I'm trying to teach Percy to share...
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    Companihens chickens

    Some snapshot or Percy and cleopatra together. Percy rarely comes to the patio or even near the house so hard to get a picture of him like this. The 3 old faithful! And recent eggs 🥚
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    Companihens chickens

    And a few other recent pictures
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    Companihens chickens

    Pretty Pinch, shes getting more friendly but I would still struggle to handle her. Pepin, no chance of getting near her. Very flightly and doesn't even go near the other chickens. Black has just closed her eyes here so she looks worse. But her comb is pale. Armand 🐓
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    Companihens chickens

    I didn't update about the eggs yesterday... as far as I can tell cleopatra and prue are the last of the bantams yet to lay. Esmerelda, Grey, polka and Pinch definitely lay. And I think Pepin has laid too now. The polish lay the narrow pointy eggs, which are very white shelled. Out of 7 bantams...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I've definitely observed my 2 males behaving very differently around the hens just before they start laying again too. Really cool to observe, guess... and prove it!
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    Companihens chickens

    Cleopatra is checking out eggboxes and back ranging in the garden again. So looks like her molt is over and she's possibly thinking about laying again. Percy is mounting her frequently again too. Armand has tried it... cleopatra screamed and wouldn't keep still. Percy did nothing at the time...
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