Thank you, she's ones of my favorites too! I can't get over how friendly they are and calm, even in their new surroundings. We have 2 hens that we got as chicks last year (both bantams) that aren't as calm as the new group. We had originally plan to keep them in a separate area to quarantine them but it didn't work out as planned...that being said, they have fit right in, immediately, with our original group of 6 standard hens, 2 bantam hens and currently 15 six week old chicks and 4 ducks. They got to free range for a few hours today and we had no issues. I had it all planned out, a couple of weeks in their own pen with their own coop, then slowly start letting them free range, then free range with the group, then add them to the coop at night when the others were sleeping... What we didn't count on was the rooster wanting to impress our hens so much that he was jumping up in the pen and hitting the sun shade and we were afraid he would be injured.
Extra bonus! How can there be an extra bonus you ask? Everything went so amazingly well that there's something else?! We got an egg!!! Plus, she laid in the nesting box of the coop we had put them in last night. Perfect! Then, one of the other girls went into the nesting box our original girls are using twice today, though she didn't lay. I'm taking it as a good sign that she's close or at least wants to!
