So glad Blue has gotten the hang of being a mama! What a nice surprise.Scrambled up some eggs and garlic and oregano from the garden for Blue, my new broody EE hen and her new adoptees. She did great last night. Then fed the peeps some omelet before her selfawww my 1st accidental broody melts me lol
When I went in a scared a blue jay sitting on my chair. I think this may be my predatornothing in the traps.
Sucks because they nest all over the chicken area protecting the area from hawks and eagles, sounding alarms and attacking for their own nests and I have seen them battle a hen over a tomato caterpillar so they're brave and out for easy meals. Ug. They've gotten into a rotten out eve from where a falling tree hit and nested in the attic of the rabbitry. The jay inside was banging against windows trying to get out and up into a ceiling tile in the drop ceiling we use to vent the room in summer. I shoo'd it out the door and stapled netting over the eve outside and sealed bad vent. I scooped up the nest upstairs(2 eggs in it) and took it to the outside wall (about 3 ft away from original sight but lower) and set it under the eves in a nandina shrub. Maybe they'll come back? Probably not tho. But they're out of the house!
I didn't see any sign of chicks or feathers that weren't a jays tho. Still can't have them nesting there tho.
hmmm sneaky
