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Yesterday was bittersweet. I rehomed Marshmallow, as well as his main squeeze, Peep, and Carmella. I ended up keeping the red SGE, Ruby, along with the two Wyandottes. Still have to get the Bieles to my brother, but at least now they are safe and sound outside - including SLEEPING outside -...

Marshmallow broke me. 😭😭😭

Sounds like you are living the dream!

Wow! That is amazing. What a fantastic mother and such a treat to see! How many chickens do you reckon you have on your property?

The "new girls" enjoying the upper roosts.

I hope so. I feel like no one else is really going to love them like I do, but hopefully their next keepers will, in their own way... Oh my gosh. I was so sad to lose our drake, not only because he was such a dreamboat, but of course I wanted them to hatch out all the beautiful fluffy...

Wow. I had to YouTube that, thank you. Haha FTR, we did range the ducks until we lost our drake, but ya know. 🤷

His other suggestion to free up more run space was to turn the ducks out.

Thanks, that is a really great way to look at it. So far the three Bieles are going to him. His coop is tall but only 4x4 (but he has a much bigger run proportionally), and Bielefelders are big. So he could *maybe* handle the five pullets, but then throw a cockerel into the mix, and he's...

Thanks, I know you get it. He finally gave me the patience to let me try and explain the pros and cons of each bird, and I think he really tried to understand. But ultimately he really didn't care which ones I picked. (Although I know he is also partial to Peep.) He was just like, pick the...

I really do. It was hard enough to detach pretty much immediately from the Bieles, since that was kind of decided off the bat for me. But I really do think the other six make a great subflock, and it breaks my heart to have to split up Marshmallow and Peep, or Carmella and Ruby from Peep... I...

Every time I walk past her, I'm like, but Isa loves Carmella!!!! Lol and she's great, one of the easier ones to catch, I think. Ughh. Why is this so hard.

The day I made my final decision, I started out with one of the Wyandottes, (Ivy, the super friendly one) and Peep, and Carmella, the half red SGE. Beautiful trio IMHO with the black and white mottling, red and white mottling, and then the blonde. But then it seemed like Carmella and Peep had...

Bumping up because I'm bummed every time I have to walk past the chicks I'm not keeping, I feel weak, and I need some encouragement that I've made a good decision and it will be okay. @fluffycrow @Party_Chicken @3KillerBs @TheDawg @BastyPutt

Sigh. This has been a journey. By way of an update, I had basically been set that I would give my brother the 3 Bieles, while keeping the cockerel Marshmallow, 2 Wyandottes, and 3 supposed Starlight Green Eggers. However, the problem with keeping six is that still leaves us really with too...

In retrospect this is funny to me, because now what I see is Sylvia, the young cockerel? checking out the big hen, and taking a submissive posture to her, but in other pictures with just the three chicks, Sylvia and Marshmallow are both standing quite tall, looking out.

I had been keeping the Bieles at least in a separate brooder, after all the cockerel shenanigans started to fly around. 😄 I finally sucked it up and threw them all in together, because why the heck not. What kind of monster breaks up this whole adorable love fest cuddle pile!??? 😭😭😭 DH is...

So Marshmallow is definitely a cockerel. I have my eye on Sylvia and Ruby. So I pulled Ruby out of the other brooder and in with my chicks, so it's four and five now, the five being the 3 Bieles + 2 SGEs(?) I'm at least fairly confident are all females at this point. 😅 So it remains to be...

I am thinking Carmella may actually be an ISA Brown... How would I be able to tell the difference between now and when she laid though? And Marshmallow may be an Amberlink cockerel? This just keeps getting more and more confusing.