By George, (s)he’s got it!
Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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Great idea with the lid! I recall someone had devised a hinged top of wood on something just for that purpose, and it totally hadn’t occurred to me!
He sounds good, RC! Your situation is so different than here, I’ve not been on consistently, but it seems he hasn’t tried wooing anyone yet, right? More like getting driven off?
What camera do you have that you can move like that?
Poor guy is mercilessly attacked by all the big hens except his Mom who is fine him sharing her food but doesn’t help him out. He is getting lots of exercise running away!
No sign yet of wooing anyone. I so want to see him tidbit but he is a growing lad and seems to have an insatiable appetite!
The cameras are Arlo security cameras. Pricey but I have been very happy with them. They can be set to be motion activated, so it is moving itself based on where it sees movement. I have that one set to record if it sees movement during darkness.
He has a tidbitting-type of bok for wooing that is deeper, more bubbly, than the similar but sharper, higher, “treats are here, this is great!” bok. It’s a little like the lowest swoopy part of the oropendola’s call, or a talking drum. He’ll make it when he sees Hazel near, or knows she is behind something near him. He starts fussing with whatever is at his feet and makes this sound.
His neck feathers seem looser and flop around more, and his throat seems to hang lower, but it may be just me imagining that as I hear how rich and resonant this sound is. Like a calabash over a drum of water; like some kind of grouse. I can try to get a recording. Hazel, the current love of his life. Unfortunately Hazel is not so keen on him.
Shehnai tidbits, but he’s not doing the whole rooster thing yet. He will defer, but only a little, to the pullets when they all are eating special pellets or treats. These are growing boys!
The other evening when they got a little time out of the run but in their yard as I was finishing up chores, everyone but two hens went to roost. Including Shehnai, who seemed anxious to get up there with the two who went in. Granted, I have seen him make special noises and stand in the nest boxes at roosting time (one box, and then another box) so maybe he intended to do that, thats nice.
But that left two hens out, who then could hear everyone else in the coop, which they tried to circle from the outside to get in. Shehnai did make one long call from in there but thats it. I had the darndest time getting these hens to go away from the coop and around the corner to their coop run and then back. The straight-line mentality was at work.…finally picked up Lizbel who luckily is easy to pick up and was calling. Brought her inside the run door and then showed her the way, calling her. She reluctantly followed and then flap-ran, and that brought the second hen around.
He's a bit young to be wooing, but.... the ladies are going to make him work for it. He's well started to be a fantastic rooster. (There's always room to change, but this is excellent so far).
She's a buff orpington, 6 or 7 years old.
Could she have been having a slow molt then that has become a hard molt?
And both she and Betty’s crops where down this morning. Yay!
Eli’s is smaller I feel but still present.
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