Midget is fine!!! The friendliest little **** we have.My husband came home last week and said "I love that chicken." I knew exactly who he was talking about.(Everyone needs to understand one thing about my husband... he was a self proclaimed chicken hater) He had worked on farms all of his life an was stuck cleaning the coops on all of them. He was lead to believe chickens were nasty, dirty, lice infested birds. He is part of the reason I couldn't get chickens before. I showed him that chickens and their coops were only as dirty as their keepers allowed them to be.
Midget is a character. She is healthy and happy at this point. She still hangs out with her 2 favorite birds a Marans x named Omelette and her big buddy Margaret Australorp.
I wish I could tape her voice we she allows us to hold her... it's this funny little cooing garble...almost like she is telling us the secrets of the coop. Unlike any of the other birds. She is the first to break security of the enclosures we for them and she knows her name.and I believe she was actually the first to lay an egg.
Midget and then Rudi...
Everything got all messed up when this illness struck I was so wrapped up in trying to find out what was wrong that I didn't get to share any good news.
We got out first eggs at 17weeks. Midget and the next day Rudi... Rudi got her name because she immediately became broody. The only reason we knew Midget layed was because she's the only girl we have that lays white eggs.
I hope all is well with you and all your girls and how is Lacy doing?
Good to hear Midget is well!
Lacie is doing good! She enjoys having other geese to hang around with. I actually just got a few new pictures of her the other day.
This one I took for the benefit of everyone who goes off that all geese are mean and nasty when I tell them I have geese.
And one where she demonstrates just how spoiled she is. Why should she eat from the feeder with everyone else when she can have me hold the scoop for her to eat out of instead?
I plan on getting a male gosling to raise this spring so she can have a mate, since I am about 90% sure both of the geese I bought this spring are female too. And even if they are males, I have discovered that they are half Canada goose, so they won't be fertile and wouldn't be able to fertilize her eggs anyway. I still haven't decided on what breed gander to get her - I'll probably end up going with roman tufted, same breed as her.
Otherwise, all is well. Lost a cemani hen randomly the other day, one of my oldest hens has gone half blind, and I had one hen hang herself up by her leg over a fence, but that one seems to be recovering. Not much else going on otherwise. I did successfully hatch some chicks for the Halloween hatch a long today, so that was good!
