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It's Day 3, and so far, so good. Pepper hopped down when my daughter went out to feed, but hopped right back up and took on the Stink-Eye immediately upon finishing. In fact, DD (Dear Daughter) said Pepper upped it a level from yesterday. We have officially moved from stink-eye to stank-eye...

I didn't put any eggs under Pepper either time; she just commandeered the favorite communal egg-drop. The fact that the favored depository happens to be a high roosting shelf, not the nice, cozy, safe nesting boxes designed for that very purpose never popped into her beady-birdy little mind. The...

Sigh ... Two days later, Pepper met me at the coop door. No more broody. I took the eggs to my Biology-teacher sister, who put them in her classroom's bator. We'll see what happens, but I'm not too terribly optimistic. It's now two weeks later and Pepper's at it again. This time I refuse to get...

I'll move her first thing tomorrow morning! It should actually work out well, as we just finished a secondary coop and run as a bachelor pad for our extra Nankin cockerels. We can leave the other hens and their roos in the big, main coop so Pepper can have someone to growl at through the wire!

OHMAGOSH! I went out to put our flock to bed and little Pepper - the sweetest of our girls - hopped up on the roosting shelf and started growling - I kid you not - growling at me! She then fluffed herself up as big as her 20 ounces could go, tucked her "chin" down low into her ruff and gave me...