I'm glad your big girls are not bullies. I just hope that Wrold doesn't teach them to be mean. This is certainly one way to start an integration.Wrold has been terrorizing my babies.View attachment 2503298
I thought we had her broodiness beat. She spent a whole day with the flock doing what she ought & when I opened the coop up for dinner she was jostling for her place @ the feeding tub then went off to preen & enjoy the sunset with everybody else.
When I went to check @ roosting she was in a nesting box bokking away.
So was Hepzibah.
So now I have 2!
I've had a gutful. It seems like this has been going on forever.
So tonight I threw her in the little coop with my babies. After all, any one standard would make three of her & there were 3 of them.
Nope.
She terrorised the lot of them.
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I sat @ the nesting box lid with my trusty fishing rod & supervised.
No way was I letting Wrold have things all her own way.
The nice part is the babies were only too happy to be stroked & reassured.
The Standards are big sooks. It was Ceres who ventured forth to take on Wrold & claim the babies usual sleeping spot under the window. Desdemona joined her & eventually my itsy~bitsy frizzles who reassured Regan. Glorianna was next but Portia was last & very uncertain. They may be big girls but they aren't bullies & a broody Wrold can be a nasty piece of work. They promptly turned their united backs on her & left her to roost in solitary splendour!
The itsy~bitsies have tucked themselves well under the bigger girls as if they were chicks again & the pop door is open so there are options for first thing in the morning but my gosh! What a soap opera!
