Ok- the DH got a new HMDown Laptop and it has issues. I really don't want to retype this, again.... but:
this weekend my cockerel "Shanks" became a roo. He was chasing around the pullets trying to get his groove on. Ts made Patch very mad, who subsequently chased Shanks off with a puff up and a squawk. Today Shanks was "on guard" for his siblings today: he'd stand alert on top of a cinder blco for no reason. Then when i was cleaning the yard, he crowed: repeatedly. It sounded like when the baby yells in a paper towel tube.
The problem is that Shanks is bigger than Patch, and Shanks isnt't 16 weeks yet. I can't have them brawling, because I am pretty sure Patch will lose. It would be like a minivan versus an avalanche. Shanks is a cuckoo maran, and Patch is some sort of mutt. SO- i have convinced the DH I need another coop!
It didn't even take much...which has me wondering what he wants.... Anyway, I know he is serious, because he bought me a little dog house at a garage sale because, "it would make a good nesting box, and it is insulated."
The dog house is homemade, has a roof and a porch, and has "MAXIMUS" on a name plate above the door. Perhaps it will motivate the CMs to lay well!
Since we can't get to building the second pen for a while, I was thinking of crating both Shanks and his little bro Stumps in the giant dog cage for a few days. Do you think it will bring them down far enough on the pecking order to delay Shank's coup de tat?
Brenday- i have a black and white polish named Funny Hat and a 2 sizzles named Dozer and Daphne. Dozer carries the frizzle gene and looks like Beaker from the Muppets.
ALSO- everyone be warned. Western Ranchman got a new batch of fuzzy butts in this week. Somehow I walked out with a chick. Not sure how or why, but oh well. It was a SLW, and I figured she can keep my little hatchlings warm---like the "packing peanuts" the hatchery will send you. When the DH asked me why I got her, I guess i only said, "Packing Peanuts."
He was quiet for a while and asked, "Is this the point in the marriage where if we don't want to answer a question, we just say something non-sequitor and the other one just has to leave us alone?"
I've got a dozen of my own 3 weekers in the garage. When can they go outside?? I've never raised them from chicks before...
