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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    Today, we were honored with our first pullet egg from the last batch. The first official layer was one of the Dominiques, probably "P4" from the earlier pictures. The marked egg is a training egg, her egg is by the back wall: Meanwhile, the adults are molting, including at least half of...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    Good point about this being in the "stories of our flocks" section, so I'll gladly continue here. I managed to get some decent pictures of the four Barred pullets for closer examination: (Behind them are two Arctic Blue Eggers) Out of the three in that picture, the one closest to the camera...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    Today marks the day that the first egg in the new coop's new nesting box was laid. It was christened by one of Arthur's two BR daughters: A few weeks ago, while browsing our local store's chicken offerings, I noticed they had Dominiques. We discussed how they would be a very interesting...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    And to follow up on this, after months of having it up there - it's about a thousand times cleaner than when it was hanging at ground level. The maintenance is also significantly easier. Even algae seems uninterested.
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    How did your flock annoy you today?

    We had this happen once, and we found 10 eggs from 9 hens in one day. I always take a picture of the eggs and log them, so that definitely wasn't a misscount.
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    We finally opened up the new coop a few days ago, and closed the small coop. As a result, 4 pullets joined the adult coop (two Colombian Wyandottes and two Arctic Blue Eggers), and 18 pullets went into the new roomier coop. For now, all of the adults keep staying in the original adult coop...
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    Speckled Sussex

    I may as well add the more recent development: our Speckled Sussex is the only hen who will fly up and perch on one's arm or shoulder, and she'll eat from your hand while doing so.
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    It really does help to keep the water cleaner when it's elevated, much less debris accumulation. Today we had a few hours of free ranging in the evening. Here's some of Arthur's progeny doing something we haven't done since we lost him, along with all of the recently noted additions to the flock:
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    The four JGs have been sleeping on the roosting bars with the adults. They are the second to come out of the coop after Ares (and sometimes another rooster), before any of the hens or pullets. Speaking of "pullets", I noticed that Arthur's daughters are already bigger than their mothers. I'm...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    Last night Goldie asked to go into the big coop, which we've been locking after the roosters took everyone but her in for the past week or so. She went in, the four followed her to the door but got confused in the darkness of the coop and decided to go back to the bin where they had been...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    We added four more 8 week pullets to the flock today, which gets to a future 8 hens per 1 rooster ratio. Goldie is still acting as a taxi. The new ones are all Arctic Blue Eggers: We waited until the other birds were in and placed them into the small coop, which went just as well as with the...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    To us, the JGs look almost the same as when we got them, but they can fly now. Goldie has started to mate again, primarily with Ares. She seems to be giving the little ones more space and independence. They're about a month old now - when will she start weaning them? They're still sleeping...
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    Speckled Sussex

    We have one in a flock of now 50 chickens, of which she is the smallest. She is definitely one of our favourite chickens. Very people friendly, she is always the first to try out the new water in every waterer as I'm refilling it. She's chatty. She's very resourceful and able to evade tough...
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    2 year old hen never molted, lays soft shells

    Well, our situation got a little more complicated as we noticed that there was another hen laying soft eggs. The other hen had been through tough times and a very hard molt in the winter that caused her to lose hydration and bleed until we brought her inside to recover for a few days. We...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    The merging went well, and tonight they even went into the small coop with the others on their own. They might have yesterday too, but we were in a hurry. A good picture of Adonis with one of his Buff tail feathers showing. He also seems to have more of a wide build like Ares.
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