Get well soon @Marie2020
Well done Button!Button laid her egg IN THE NEST BOX! She has been in the habit of dropping them anywhere, in the run, on the coop floor, anywhere but the nest box.
YAY Button!!!
Oh it is still a bit raw for many of us. I am not in a good bandwidth place right now or I would help you find the link to the start of a long and very heartbreaking saga.
Excuse me a minute everyone while I recover from the heart attack my dad caused me. He did something this morning without telling me and left me to find it on my own. He decided it was time Poppet be allowed to free range unsupervised. I just went out to give everyone a treat and take a few pictures and I find the coop wide open and no Poppet. WHERE IS MY LITTLE SILKIE!! I start looking and calling for her, nothing. When I go past the horses I see a group dustbathing but no poppet. Go to the hay no Poppet. I make a entire sweep of the yard and end back up in front of the horses looking in their stalls afraid to find a trampled body. Said group of hens are still dustbathing and I hear her calls. I then take a closer look, in the middle of the pile is my pipsqueak happily dustbathing with the big girls. I had to pick her up to check for injuries, after all she is a spitfire and has always tried to pick fights with the girls when I am around. She is perfectly fine and while I was out there freezing no fights, none, zilch. I am giving her about another hour and she is getting put up. I just cannot leave her out to free range all day, I can't. Right now she has been out since about 8:30.
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This is very helpful. That is if I ever hatch marans.
Don't think you need to worry about her with the other chickens - she even got her share of treats!
Someone needs a real talking to. You can't do stuff like that without talking to someone first. I feel so bad for you. How scary?Excuse me a minute everyone while I recover from the heart attack my dad caused me. He did something this morning without telling me and left me to find it on my own. He decided it was time Poppet be allowed to free range unsupervised
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It is very windy and cold. Now that the panic has subsided she could be let out occasionally with them. I still worry about Bubba. Not in the sense of him being aggressive towards her but he is just way to big if he ever attempted to breed her. Bubba is heavy, easily in the 8 to 9lb range and maybe heavier.
