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we're having some minor flooding here and my power was off for a while so i've been slack with my email. big news; mum's abandoned her babies, so they're on their lonesome now. The others still leave them alone. I actually saw one of them up on the top perch with the other hens, it shuffles...

haha, that wire was by no means intentional; but ended up working well. You wouldn't be any kind of mumma if you didn't worry over your babies i'm really stressed about some silkies in the pen next door that sneeze and one (tiny, skinny black baby with vision issues) who is a little more worse...

i did it they went great. Mostly all the other chooks came into the nursery to check things out rather than them go out, but for the most part the babies were ignored! one girl had a go at pecking a baby (not malicious, just curious i think) but mumma hen wouldn't have a bar of it and sorted...

i'm in the middle of NSW, an area called the Riverina, so i'm not near the flood; though i have an auntie and some counsins being evacuated from Swan Hill in Victoria. Thank you for your well wishes, i hope you're safe too. Where are you from? well, a pecking order needs to be established...

woohoo! let me know how your little bandits go! it's soo hot here right now, that i'm going to put off supervised play time until the days are cooler, it would just break my heart if i stressed them to death (heat + running from big girls). Also, i don't think i'd go so well myself having to sit...

they sound so cute! i have 3 the same age, they're driving their poor chooky mother insane! i'll be letting them into the other chooks area soon for some supervised play time, if they take to it like a duck to water i'll make it a permanent thing, if not i'll try try again untill they're old...