BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

[BDutch]

Later this afternoon, Black was laying down in the nestbox and Pearl was free ranging again.

Confident Black is healing/has less pain.

 

[MaryJanet]

Later this afternoon, Black was laying down in the nestbox and Pearl was free ranging again.

Confident Black is healing/has less pain.

Ah! That's great news

 

[BDutch]

Black is still in the small coop the whole/most of the time.

She mainly walks around and sits in the nestbox area and comes down to the small covered run now and then. I haven’t seen her outside.

I suppose she knows best.

 

[ManueB]

Black is still in the small coop the whole/most of the time.

She mainly walks around and sits in the nestbox area and comes down to the small covered run now and then. I haven’t seen her outside.

I suppose she knows best.

It's hard to know if she stays inside because she is still not well, or because she is feeling afraid.
As long as you see her eat and drink rest and calm are probably what can help her the most now.
I hope she will be progressively feeling better.

 

[BDutch]

Today Black went outside to free range with the others. Not actively, but she did enjoy the sun and walked around a bit.

She was near to were I was sitting for some time.

 

[RoyalChick]

Today Black went outside to free range with the others. Not actively, but she did enjoy the sun and walked around a bit.

She was near to were I was sitting for some time.
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Sounds like she is getting better. She is pretty!

 

[BDutch]

Tuesday night we missed Janice when I checked. It was already dark and I found her high up in the pear tree. In the morning (still dark) my husband heard a disturbing noice and went out to check but didn’t see anything.
A few hours later we received a message from a neighbour 6 houses down the road that one of my chickens was in her garden.

Janice probably panicked otherwise she would not have gone that far away. An hour later she got home by herself and wanted to go inside to lay an egg.

Another neighbour warned for stoats/weasels (google translates to stone marten) , a few days ago. He had one damaging his car.
Definitely not a good idea to sleep outside for my chickens.

 

[Molpet]

Tuesday night we missed Janice when I checked. It was already dark and I found her high up in the pear tree. In the morning (still dark) my husband heard a disturbing noice and went out to check but didn’t see anything.
A few hours later we received a message from a neighbour 6 houses down the road that one of my chickens was in her garden.

Janice probably panicked otherwise she would not have gone that far away. An hour later she got home by herself and wanted to go inside to lay an egg.

Another neighbour warned for stoats/weasels (google translates to stone marten) , a few days ago. He had one damaging his car.
Definitely not a good idea to sleep outside for my chickens.

I dislike those weasels, martens and mink. Horrible kills everything that moves.
Glad she made it home

 

[RoyalChick]

Tuesday night we missed Janice when I checked. It was already dark and I found her high up in the pear tree. In the morning (still dark) my husband heard a disturbing noice and went out to check but didn’t see anything.
A few hours later we received a message from a neighbour 6 houses down the road that one of my chickens was in her garden.

Janice probably panicked otherwise she would not have gone that far away. An hour later she got home by herself and wanted to go inside to lay an egg.

Another neighbour warned for stoats/weasels (google translates to stone marten) , a few days ago. He had one damaging his car.
Definitely not a good idea to sleep outside for my chickens.

Glad she got home and all is well.
Double check coop security. As well as being vicious killers, that class of predator are also crafty and can get through very small gaps.

 

[Molpet]

I dislike those weasels, martens and mink. Horrible kills everything that moves.
Glad she made it home

Add coyotes/canine to this list.
After I posted this I went out and found 7 chicken bodies and a couple chicks missing.
I took the usable meat of 5 hens and one sweet cockerel. About a gallon of drumsticks and thighs, half gallon of boneless breasts.

I was in the house less than an hour.
Of course one was my favorite. She hatched my first meat mutts and hadn't laid much if any this year...I didn't butcher her.