Gideon's Got a Girlfriend! Gideon's Got a Girlfriend! She Isn't Pleased!

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I really don't, but I gave her some eggs and moved her into a more "mobile" box so we can carry her over to the new house if it comes to that, which it probably will
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I'll have to think about what to do with her and all the others very soon. Good thing we have a big area for their new coop and run. So I can keep quite a few, but I still need to sell some.

Raven's one of my old hen's daughters, so she's a little bit special to me.

How's Tiny's leg?
 
Tiny still has a limp, but when she can stay away from the roosters, it seems to become less and less.

I rescued her from Gideon yesterday--she absolutely will NOT squat for him and was screaming and pulling away, so I literally picked him up off her and held him for a bit, told him to cool his jets and quit going after the old and the semi-blind, LOL. He likes my Buff Brahma, the head hen, who is 5 1/2 and Tiny.
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Isaac knocked him off Caroline yesterday. Ike will do that, but doesn't go out of his way to chase him all over so I think if the boy calmed down around here, they would make a good team.

He has never bitten me one time, no matter what I do, so I believe he is turning out to be a good-tempered rooster.
 
Hope so, he's so pretty, I can imagine he'll have nice offspring. As long as he goes for the right hens
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Raven broke an egg and made and nice big mess of it, so I chucked her and the remaining eggs out. Luckily it would appear that she got over her urge to sit. Her mom started laying again last week and is laying fairly regularly. That hen amazes me. She must be at least 6 yo! I wonder how long she'll keep going?
 
My oldest hen, a hatchery Buff Orpington, just died a couple of weeks ago. She was 6 1/2.

My blue Orp rooster, RIR/Buff Orp cross hen, Meg, and Caroline are the next oldest at over 5 1/2 years. Then my two BR hens, Becca and Amanda, are a couple of months younger than they are. All those hens are still laying, too.
 
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It's amazing. I keep hearing people say hens stop laying when they are 2 yo, then I'd say what about Henpecked? She's still at it! What's the oldest active layer you ever heard off?
 
The absolute oldest I've heard of on BYC was 17 years old, not sure the breed, but I think she was a game hen or small mixed breed, one or the other. Her owner, who is no longer active here, said she'd lay an egg or two a year at that age. She died at 17, if I recall.


Gideon being warned away from the chicks by broody mama Carly. He wanted in the pen extension where there is still some grass growing, but I didn't want him in there, in case a chick got into that area.






Gideon was after Tiny again today and Panda, my Barred EE hen, knocked him clean off of her. She has no tolerance for uppity teenagers.
 
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Good heavens! I should tell that to all these people who keep telling they're going to replace their hens when they are 2-3 yo. I guess it comes down to how often a hen lays. Apparently they have a certain number of egg cells and when it's finished, it's over.

I see Gideon's got a few brown feathers in-between. Like my white roos with their black "tattoos". Got that from dad. Anyone interested in taking him yet? Or have you changed your mind?
And well done, Panda!
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Love it!
 
Gideon's stray feathers are actually Rhode Island Red red, though they are shaded by the white ones on top. That would come from his Easter Egger mother, Maretta, who, by the way, shadows him quite a bit and roosted by him last night. She acts like she follows him to keep him in line, though there's no way she can know he is her son. She's my EE who is acting broody, screeching like a banshee.





Scared of Dad and trying to figure out how to get down with Ike at the bottom of the roost and my old BR hen, Amanda, resting on the floor at the other end of the long bar that runs between the roost ladder and the nests.





This is Gideon's mother, Maretta:

 
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