OMG you guys... love all the pics! My two EEs should be dropping their first eggs any day!
Hey, I got a question... or a quandary... Do any of you guys have other birds plucking your EEs' muffs? I have 10 birds and only two are EEs. One in particular has had her little beard plucked half off. I've been feeding them lots of watermelon in this heat, and I know they get all sticky and messy with it... maybe the girls are pecking them because they can smell the watermelon on them? The funny thing is, they allow the other birds to do it, and almost act like they like it! It's just so weird!
Those EEs are such goofy birds. They've both been so skittish... not wanting to be caught or touched for months. But now that they're mature enough to lay.. they've gotten really mellow. And most of my older girls just crack me up with the "submission pose." They've been doing it for a few weeks now, whenever I go to pet them or try to pick them up, they stop, bend forward, flex their wings out, and swish the tail off to the side, like they're ready for the rooster! It's hilarious! In fact this morning, Gertie, one of the EEs jumped upon my leg when I was sitting with my younger GLW who sits on me all the time, and she immediately went into the submission pose. So I pet her, and then she does the fluffing all the way up to the hackles. She actually sat with me for over a minute, letting me pet her and talk to her. It was so cool, especially after months of her running away from me!
