Happy to hear she is doing good. she is very pretty.Here´s another one, she got hurt by the cockbird and had a large wound on her side, but it´s healing very well and she´s doing ok. I´ll not keep her with the cock anymore now, so she´s moved house and gone to live with the layers.
She´s one of my favourites, she has such a personality. When she was tiny I was sure she was a cockerel, being so alert and assertive. I´m keeping an eye on her though. I had let her go back in with the main flock of birds as I´d already removed the cock to a different pen. The first night she roosted with the others, ok. The second night I didn´t check, and in the morning I found her standing in the pond! Sopping wet as it had rained too, she was shivering cold, so I washed her under a warm tap and wrapped a towel around her to take out the worst, dosed her up with ACVinegar, then left her back in the bedroom where she´d been before as we had to go out. Well she was ok and laid a couple of eggs in the box that I´d put on the floor for her. After a couple of days she improved enough to go back out again, but this time with the layers. Goodness knows how she ever ended up in the pond, at least she was in the shallow bit. There´s always something happening here!
My ganders only put their heads down to warn off. They do their courtship like a syncronised dance in the water, arching necks like swans and ducking their heads in the water, it´s very graceful.
Last year Sam scared on of my hens probably putting his head down and making her move and she accidentally jumped into the pool She's a frizzle bantam so very tiny, when I found her she was soaked and close to drowning, do you think one of the geese may have scared her into the pond?
Congrats on your BYC recognition.
I don´t think so, my geese are very mild-natured, they do shoo the ducks away, but the chickens don´t irritate them.
Bless her heart she looked pathetic.By the way, a wet frizzle bantam must be quite something to see!Glad you managed to fish her out!
Bantams are spunky little things, aren´t they? I used to have some, but the cock was so frisky that he wanted to mate with all my chickens and I didn´t want to have half-bantam everythings here, so he moved house.Bless her heart she looked pathetic.Sammy has never liked her since she stood up to him one time when she had chicks.
