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

[BDutch]

Any ideas how she did it? Does it look like it snapped off?

Honestly, I have no idea what happend. A guess is a piece snapped off and she started to shape her beak on bricks or paving stones herself.

 

[Gill-b]

...names occurred after happy hour.

 

[MaryJanet]

Honestly, I have no idea what happend. A guess is a piece snapped off and she started to shape her beak on bricks or paving stones herself.

I've noticed Mary often wipes her beak on hard surfaces, maybe to keep it trimmed?

 

[BDutch]

I've noticed Mary often wipes her beak on hard surfaces, maybe to keep it trimmed?

My chickens always wipe their beaks after eating wet food like yoghurt. It helps trim to trim their beaks. But somehow Ini mini doesn’t do this much. I don’t know why she never took care of her growing beak.

I helped her a little last year. But it's hard to get the tip of the beak off with sandpaper or a nail file without tormenting or hurting her. I also tried a nail clipper once. But it started to bleed. While I was sure I only cut off a small tip. It seemed a blood vessel grew into to tip of her beak.

 

[RoyalChick]

I've noticed Mary often wipes her beak on hard surfaces, maybe to keep it trimmed?

I have noticed this too. Mine use the concrete blocks that form the foundation of the Chicken Palace to file their beaks.

 

[BDutch]

I've noticed Mary often wipes her beak on hard surfaces, maybe to keep it trimmed?

My chickens always wipe their beaks after eating wet food like yoghurt. It helps trim to trim their beaks. But somehow Ini mini doesn’t do this much. I don’t know why she never took care of her growing beak properly.

I helped her a little last year. But it's hard to get the tip of the beak off with sandpaper or a nail file without tormenting or hurting her. I also tried a nail clipper once. But it started to bleed immediately. I was sure I only cut off a very small tip. It seemed a blood vessel grew into to tip of her beak.

Today I made a new picture. Yesterday there must have been a little piece of the food under the upper beak that gave a wrong impression. Today she is clean and its obvious the upper beak is still a bit longer as it should be. But not as bad as before.

We have a real warm mothers day. Sunny and 24°C. Its the first day the chickens clearly seek the shadow to relax.

 

[BDutch]

Yesterday evening the chickens were quarrelling a lot around roost time. When I went over to look I found the chickens had rearranged who slept where.

The last month sleeping arrangements:
Extension: Katrientje, Kraai, Black & Pearl.
Playhouse: Ini mini, Janice, Gin & Tonic. ^^

Yesterday Ini mini slept in the Extension. I have no clue what the have been arguing about.

Im curious if more people who have two coops experience it as a plus to have the possibility for the chickens to choose where to sleep. Maybe I start a new thread to get a few answers.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yesterday evening the chickens were quarrelling a lot around roost time. When I went over to look I found the chickens had rearranged who slept where.

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The last month sleeping arrangements:
Extension: Katrientje, Kraai, Black & Pearl.
Playhouse: Ini mini, Janice, Gin & Tonic. ^^

Yesterday Ini mini slept in the Extension. I have no clue what the have been arguing about.

Im curious if more people who have two coops experience it as a plus to have the possibility for the chickens to choose where to sleep. Maybe I start a new thread to get a few answers.

I don’t have two coops but I have a very big coop with lots of different areas and roosts.
Mine sometimes have a discussion that ends up with someone sleeping far away from the others.
It is usually the same couple of hens that go off elsewhere.