MJ's little flock

[LaFemmeKatia]

I know it's not Wednesday but I have been reveling in my new kitchen some more and thought you (mainly you MJ) might enjoy my "Tea Cupboard"
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The tins are 3 deep in some places.
It will be a little less full once I put my tea shelves up and put some of the prettiest tins on display.

I love your tea-cupboard.

 

[MaryJanet]

Interesting. Maggie is a big girl and she thinks nothing of jumping up. In fact she is the only one who lays her eggs in the top bunk - and that requires a 2' jump up and then another jump across and up.

Does she move with agility on the ground too?

 

[RoyalChick]

Does she move with agility on the ground too?

She is very fast - she can keep pace with a flying Roadrunner down the hill from the top of the Chicken Palace to the bottom door - but it isn't graceful. It is very 'velociraptor' kind of relentless pounding of the feet!
You know Shad's rooster avatar? She has that same sort of wide-legged stance when she runs.
I measured and her vertical jump up to the upper bunk nest box is a bit less than 2' - more like 20" and then the second jump is another 6" up and about a foot horizontally away.
All my Princesses regularly make those sorts of jumps up to perches etc., but only Maggie chooses to lay her eggs there.
This morning Maggie got up very early - before light - and I saw on the camera that she thought about going up to the top bunk but thought better of it in the dark and went into a lower bunk instead.

 

[MaryJanet]

She is very fast - she can keep pace with a flying Roadrunner down the hill from the top of the Chicken Palace to the bottom door - but it isn't graceful. It is very 'velociraptor' kind of relentless pounding of the feet!
You know Shad's rooster avatar? She has that same sort of wide-legged stance when she runs.
I measured and her vertical jump up to the upper bunk nest box is a bit less than 2' - more like 20" and then the second jump is another 6" up and about a foot horizontally away.
All my Princesses regularly make those sorts of jumps up to perches etc., but only Maggie chooses to lay her eggs there.
This morning Maggie got up very early - before light - and I saw on the camera that she thought about going up to the top bunk but thought better of it in the dark and went into a lower bunk instead.

Ah I see! Janet has similar confidence in her body, but her running style is less velociraptor and more head-down, stream lined, wings out, runnnnn!!! Anyway, Mary is comparatively very ponderous. She might jog if she's feeling really good, but ordinarily she moves with great care and stateliness. Ivy has the veloci-stride when she runs, with her head lowered but not all the way down like Janet and with rather a dancey bounce in her legs. Peggy is a zoomer like Janet but she doesn't take her stream lining quite as far and she's a flappy runner too.

I'm glad we've got talking about this, it's helped me understand how unique each hen is

 

[RoyalChick]

Ah I see! Janet has similar confidence in her body, but her running style is less velociraptor and more head-down, stream lined, wings out, runnnnn!!! Anyway, Mary is comparatively very ponderous. She might jog if she's feeling really good, but ordinarily she moves with great care and stateliness. Ivy has the veloci-stride when she runs, with her head lowered but not all the way down like Janet and with rather a dancey bounce in her legs. Peggy is a zoomer like Janet but she doesn't take her stream lining quite as far and she's a flappy runner too.

I'm glad we've got talking about this, it's helped me understand how unique each hen is

Yes, they are definitely different from each other in how they move - and in how they eat.
As an example from today, I have peach trees and this year I have a glut of peaches - fridge full, freezer full and they are still falling off the trees and rotting!
Anyway, chickens like peaches so I am throwing some of the fallers into their yard.
Diana is very greedy and any sign of a new food she is there. But she is quite delicate in how she eats so she has trouble with the tough peach skins (these are old peach trees so no modern thin-skinned variety), she can really only eat them if I have taken a bite, or a part has rotted away, or if it splits when I throw it. And then she takes little pecks at the flesh.
Maggie on the other hand is less greedy for treats but when she goes after a peach she goes in like a jack hammer, bursts the peach wide open and demolishes the whole thing in probably 4-5 bites.

 

[MaryJanet]

Yes, they are definitely different from each other in how they move - and in how they eat.
As an example from today, I have peach trees and this year I have a glut of peaches - fridge full, freezer full and they are still falling off the trees and rotting!
Anyway, chickens like peaches so I am throwing some of the fallers into their yard.
Diana is very greedy and any sign of a new food she is there. But she is quite delicate in how she eats so she has trouble with the tough peach skins (these are old peach trees so no modern thin-skinned variety), she can really only eat them if I have taken a bite, or a part has rotted away, or if it splits when I throw it. And then she takes little pecks at the flesh.
Maggie on the other hand is less greedy for treats but when she goes after a peach she goes in like a jack hammer, bursts the peach wide open and demolishes the whole thing in probably 4-5 bites.

Maggie has a real zest for life!

 

[fuentemoon]

Mine are the similar, except everyone will come running then decide. Alinta an Rosie though are hard hitters, Brenna is delicate and gentle.

 

[MaryJanet]

Line up please everyone!

Peggy, where's Peggy? Off skating as usual.

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening MJ and everyone

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks