BFFs 4eva

[fowl weathered friend]

EE Adrienne and cochin Sylvia were best friends since chickhood, until Syvia grew into a lovely baby rooster and had to be traded in about a week ago.
Since then, she just cries and cries. My silkie and cochin cchicks (3wk and 1 wk) were too small to go in with her, it seemed, so she continued to be lonely. When I had to separate the silkie from the cochin--who's a runt--because she was growing too big I had a room full of crying chickens, despite the teddies I gave them.
When I found that the silkie had broken out of her brooder and into the teeny cochins, I decided to try making Adrienne (2+ months)

and Sylvia (part deux, 3-4 wks)

into roomies.

Cuteness ensued:

Adrienne sometimes pecks just the tip of her beak: poultry kisses!

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

Cute!

I have an EE pullet who is in with a few smaller chicks because she was left with none of her own age. She gets along well with them and I don't think she even realizes that she is twice their size. Until I put her with the babies, she was so lonely that she cried and cried all the time. Now she piles up and sleeps with them just like she is one of them.