Ooooh K Spot how very exciting … I so hope you have some little faces to greet you also! Good luck concentrating on work!
Fancy it’s all good, the pictures are just so adorable; made me smile.
Wow, are you able to get some pictures of the banners and share? Very sad about the foal
Once again, I need to reach out to everyone for some more advice/help please?
Prior to Tina’s hatch, the only hatches I have had here were Cilla’s and she is the matriarch.
When Cilla’s last hatch were about 5 weeks old, I let them and Cilla out with everyone else for the afternoon free range but they still slept separated and were separated during the day. No dramas, no one caused any problems and stayed well away from Cilla and Co.
They had been able to see each other through the wire dividers throughout the whole process.
So, yesterday afternoon, as everyone has again been able to see each other through the wire since Tina went into lockdown and there has been lots of talking through the wire etc, I decided to let Tina and the beans (just over 4 weeks old) out of their temporary run to join in the free range.
Bad idea! Dusty attacked Tina; Tina ended up in the fish pond in a panic run; the beans were running around peeping their little heads off and couldn’t find mum!
Hubby and I rustled Tina and the beans back into their run and then locked Dusty and Cilla away; leaving LuLu (the friendliest and Tina’s best bud) out. Let Tina and the beans back out and LuLu was OK, a bit bossy with Tina but not too bad and OK with the beans.
During all this, Cilla (the matriarch) was more interested in food than anything else. Dusty (second in line) was the problem!
This is not going to be easy!! Tina was never top of the pecking order and I now have no idea how I am going to integrate her back in. After that little disaster I am going to think on it some more and leave it until the weekend. Might try the old food distraction trick; Hubby feeding Dusty, Cilla and LuLu mealies and me feeding Tina and the beans mealies close by.
Either that, or wait until I know who I might be keeping. If both are roosters, then I only have to integrate Tina.
Anyone have any other ideas? As I mentioned, these gals have been able to see and talk to each other during the whole process. I got such a shock when Dusty attacked!
Also, to top off my not so much fun afternoon, my neighbour had to have his 8 year old cat put down because the cancer was causing him not to eat and his back legs were getting wobbly. I loved Ziggy nearly as much as my neighbour, I used to cat-sit him all the time when his dad went away. Putting a big cross through yesterday and forgetting it ever happened!
Fancy it’s all good, the pictures are just so adorable; made me smile.
Wow, are you able to get some pictures of the banners and share? Very sad about the foal
Once again, I need to reach out to everyone for some more advice/help please?
Prior to Tina’s hatch, the only hatches I have had here were Cilla’s and she is the matriarch.
When Cilla’s last hatch were about 5 weeks old, I let them and Cilla out with everyone else for the afternoon free range but they still slept separated and were separated during the day. No dramas, no one caused any problems and stayed well away from Cilla and Co.
They had been able to see each other through the wire dividers throughout the whole process.
So, yesterday afternoon, as everyone has again been able to see each other through the wire since Tina went into lockdown and there has been lots of talking through the wire etc, I decided to let Tina and the beans (just over 4 weeks old) out of their temporary run to join in the free range.
Bad idea! Dusty attacked Tina; Tina ended up in the fish pond in a panic run; the beans were running around peeping their little heads off and couldn’t find mum!
Hubby and I rustled Tina and the beans back into their run and then locked Dusty and Cilla away; leaving LuLu (the friendliest and Tina’s best bud) out. Let Tina and the beans back out and LuLu was OK, a bit bossy with Tina but not too bad and OK with the beans.
During all this, Cilla (the matriarch) was more interested in food than anything else. Dusty (second in line) was the problem!
This is not going to be easy!! Tina was never top of the pecking order and I now have no idea how I am going to integrate her back in. After that little disaster I am going to think on it some more and leave it until the weekend. Might try the old food distraction trick; Hubby feeding Dusty, Cilla and LuLu mealies and me feeding Tina and the beans mealies close by.
Either that, or wait until I know who I might be keeping. If both are roosters, then I only have to integrate Tina.
Anyone have any other ideas? As I mentioned, these gals have been able to see and talk to each other during the whole process. I got such a shock when Dusty attacked!
Also, to top off my not so much fun afternoon, my neighbour had to have his 8 year old cat put down because the cancer was causing him not to eat and his back legs were getting wobbly. I loved Ziggy nearly as much as my neighbour, I used to cat-sit him all the time when his dad went away. Putting a big cross through yesterday and forgetting it ever happened!
Hopefully when I get home from work there will be a couple of my little faces to greet me.
You may have to just keep them chickens separated for a little longer... Some girls can just go a little mad at times I think. Another option is to keep the head girl isolated(by herself) for a few weeks away from the mum with babies and the rest of the flock.. That sometimes brings them down a peg or two.
