Time to renew looking at the Do's and Don't's on the Rooster Allies pages, and asking advice here. Shehnai seemed more forceful with his pecks today, and he actually grabbed my neoprene gloved finger and yanked on it. Don't know what it means. I think he flapped a wing on to my knee from the side, I didn't see it fully, I couldn't see if he was herding me or challenging me or what. He was staying much closer to me than usual. Then, he stuck around long after the ladies had gone to roost, so I know my presence was something that he feels he needs to pay attention to. When I realized I seemed to be keeping him from roosting I went over to the coop platform to encourage him to go roost and he ran next to me all ready to jump up "too". Does he think I'm a hen? I decided I should leave.
I had been fixing some tarps attachments and then looking from the inside planning for ventilating snow-stopping measures.
On a positive note I've been noticing how chill Tedi has become when at the fence with Shehnai, so today I opened the gate and Tedi went around when he was there, and Shehnai got closer and sort of tidbitted but didn't jump her or fight her, and she slowly circled back and came back in. Same with Diane a bit later. Annie, still molting hard, was not interested in doing that.
