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I've Let Pip and Helena out into the big pen after letting them out for 'a bit' the last couple of days. I sat out with them for a couple of hours and now I'm periodically checking the Blink cam to make sure things are okay. I had to close off their coop and pen as the Big Girls were going in after spilled feed and there it's just too easy to corner somebody. Out in the open they've occasionally been giving a short chase but there are too many things to block their eyeline so they quickly stop - "Now what was I chasing?" And, after the short visits to the run the last couple of days Pip and Helena have learned that "run" is the best reaction to the Big Girls getting close.
I had the little transition pen fixed so that the Big Girls couldn't get in but the littles could, or so I thought. Ivy was managing it. After sitting out today I watched her do it. She just about had to army crawl to get in, but she was managing. So, I put a re-bar stake down to narrow the opening. She still managed to squeeze through. So, I put down another. I came in not too long after this, so I don't know if she can still squeeze through there. I did at least verify that the littles, including the Queens, Elizabeth and Victoria, can get in, although they have to stoop a bit. There's a feeder and waterer in there that I wanted them, but not the Bigs, to be able to access.
This is Amber, hopeful that there will be mealworms, sitting on my knee. She's the boldest. Not sure if she's laying yet, there was another egg in the nestboxes this morning that looked like it was from a different pullet than presumably Rain.
I had the little transition pen fixed so that the Big Girls couldn't get in but the littles could, or so I thought. Ivy was managing it. After sitting out today I watched her do it. She just about had to army crawl to get in, but she was managing. So, I put a re-bar stake down to narrow the opening. She still managed to squeeze through. So, I put down another. I came in not too long after this, so I don't know if she can still squeeze through there. I did at least verify that the littles, including the Queens, Elizabeth and Victoria, can get in, although they have to stoop a bit. There's a feeder and waterer in there that I wanted them, but not the Bigs, to be able to access.
This is Amber, hopeful that there will be mealworms, sitting on my knee. She's the boldest. Not sure if she's laying yet, there was another egg in the nestboxes this morning that looked like it was from a different pullet than presumably Rain.
