tell them he's your dad ;)
We won’t even go into the last time my Dad and I went out to a pub for lunch back in 2019 (last time I visited the mainland… lol!). Sit down we bot order a beer waitress asks if we’ve worked together or something, as I seem really familiar. Dad says “well of course, she’s my daughter, she looks like me, that’s probably it”. Well, I don’t usually go to this particular pub but… do you shop where I used to work? Nope. Work at the local grocery stores? Nope. Other restaurants or pubs? She gives a list of pubs she’s worked at… Now bear in mind, I’ve been out of town for almost a full year and a half at this point, sure enough she used to work at the Terminal Pub a whole three blocks from our house. Yep, probably there I would come in with the skinny tech guy for Lululemon and a shorter balding guy. Yes, Tim and Andrew… I may have been a fairly regular customer there. 😂 Roommate practically lived there, and DH was more of a regular than me, but apparently I was still there often enough to be very familiar lover a year later. Of course the pub I frequented most was the one right outside my work. When you get off at 11pm, last call is 12, and the last bus is 12:45 with an hour commute home, it makes going anywhere else impossible.
 
Soooo, for the first time in his young life Branch just flogged the back of my boots. In all honesty, instead of being angry with him I'm proud of him. I brought it all on myself. When I went out to bring the chicks in for the night I came with a bun to give them a treat before bed. I found Branch talking to the chicks through the door and acting like he wanted inside with them. I decided I would let him in to see how he would react to them. I tore up the bun and scattered it around the coop and let Branch come in. He immediately started tearing up the bread into smaller pieces and calling the chicks to him. They came running and he started picking up bits of bread and letting them take it from his beak. After the bread was gone he sat down still talking to them and one of the orps hopped up onto his back and sat there for a minute. The whole time I'm praising him telling him what a good boy he was. I hope to recreate this tomorrow and I will have the camera with me when I do. Anyway, it is getting dark so I start trying to catch the hooligans who are not ready to come inside. I grabbed one of the EEs and it let out a shriek like I was killing it and Branch immediately attacked. I have never saw him so mad. I let go of the chick and it ran and hid behind him while Branch is standing guard growling at me. I was not thinking and should have put Branch back outside of the coop before trying to round up the chicks. I picked him up and put him out and then spent a good 5 minutes chasing the uncooperative chicks around the coop before I had them all. The whole time Branch was doing his best to get back inside to get me again. This protectiveness has given me a plan though. This next week the chicks are going to spend the day outside, with supervised visits with Branch. Next week I will allow supervised time outside the coop, and I hope Branch is still watching over them. I think Branch will be my best bet to teach them the ropes to free ranging and will keep the bigger hens from picking on them.
Such an awesome little guy! Good rooster. ❤️❤️❤️
 
@featherhead007, @Marie2020 - you two are running up some big tax liabilities with the last few posts. You will have to ask @BY Bob if there are payment plans available.
I’m probably also in line for the chicken tax collections notice! Lol I really need to take more pictures, but they are not the most cooperative of subjects
 
FBF!!

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Profile butts: Primula and Hector, Aspodel down in front

Egg laying butt, Blanche with Nellie's temper tantrum
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Double butt from the feather profile, Silver and Storm
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They wandered awfully close: Jessica
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More baby pics just cause
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Colors are coming in FAST!
 

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I noticed the colors coming in. Very pretty!
Remind me how old they are. Sorry, I know you said.
 
View attachment 3045481Profile butts: Primula and Hector, Aspodel down in front

Egg laying butt, Blanche with Nellie's temper tantrumView attachment 3045482

Double butt from the feather profile, Silver and StormView attachment 3045483

They wandered awfully close: JessicaView attachment 3045484

More baby pics just causeView attachment 3045486View attachment 3045488Colors are coming in FAST!
I noticed the colors coming in. Very pretty!
Remind me how old they are. Sorry, I know you said.
3 weeks? I think...lemme check calendar...yes. and Hector popped enough body feathers to frame his wings yesterday.
 
View attachment 3045481Profile butts: Primula and Hector, Aspodel down in front

Egg laying butt, Blanche with Nellie's temper tantrumView attachment 3045482

Double butt from the feather profile, Silver and StormView attachment 3045483

They wandered awfully close: JessicaView attachment 3045484

More baby pics just causeView attachment 3045486View attachment 3045488Colors are coming in FAST!

3 weeks? I think...lemme check calendar...yes. and Hector popped enough body feathers to frame his wings yesterday.
Great. Yours are just over a week ahead of mine so I can see what to expect.
 

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