Change of plans

[Auntiejessi3]

You sold the ermine?!

Yeah, I have 2 ermine and 1 black pullet (22 weeks old) I want a dominant white cockerel and pullet to complete the breeding flock. I've got a batch of dominant white x ermine in the incubator now.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Opened the hidey holes today and everything is going great!

 

[Auntiejessi3]

They are really starting to explore now, I love it!

 

[Auntiejessi3]

3 F2 OE cockerels left to find a home/ pot, free of anyone who is looking. Updated pic of Calypso, gorgeous! And the fall veg bed is doing fantastic (kale, gem cabbage, spinach, brussel sprouts, peas, and onions)!

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Did some experimenting yesterday in-between working on another garden bed. We've got apple cinnamon, double chocolate, and banana nut, all sourdough

 

[Auntiejessi3]

The last 3 cockerels from that hatch are gone. I kept 1 F2 Blue Wheaten OE (cockerel) and Calypso, F2 cemani x Isabel ameraucana (pullet). I need to grab some pics of these Splash Marans chicks, they are so cute and much more chill than the last batch.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

By far one of the strangest things I've seen with my broodys. So this is lunatic fringe and her pullet (10 weeks old) that I kept. Since she started laying again a few weeks ago her pullet literally gets in the nest box with her and just hangs out the entire time. I guess she'll be a pro when it's her turn to start

 

[NatJ]

By far one of the strangest things I've seen with my broodys. So this is lunatic fringe and her pullet (10 weeks old) that I kept. Since she started laying again a few weeks ago her pullet literally gets in the nest box with her and just hangs out the entire time. I guess she'll be a pro when it's her turn to start

I had a hen & her daughter that did that once, too. It really surprised me the first time I saw it, but they just kept doing it and I eventually quit thinking about it. I have no idea at what point the pullet stopped keeping her mother company in the nestbox.