I am keeping my fingers crossed for Hedwig being a girl- I don't see much comb there - or wait, who was her mama? Is the comb how we are going to be able to tell?
Poor Severus. He is really a pretty boy- it's too bad he couldn't step up to the plate and be the man.
I am so loving playing with the 4 baby chicks. Even Ivan the Terrible has taken to perching on me fairly consistently. Belle is sort of a drama queen, but she cuddles. Boo and Emma are the ones that just want to sit on you and nap, though. I keep looking in vain for characteristics of one hen or another in Emma- sometimes I see Lizzie's expression- but Emma flies a lot, and Cora is my flyer, and she also stretches her neck to see things the way Cora does. There is already a little tail black coming in - ???? They are all going to be the fattest chicks in the Seven Universes, though. I have to keep stuffing goodies down them to get Harriet to eat. She still gives everything over to those little chunks.
My BR, Henrietta, is going to slip away soon. Internal egg issues, like Cyn's kids. She molted a few months back, and never grew anything back, and looks like a half naked, frail little old lady- she can barely keep her head up, and refused even grapes starting yesterday. No poop. I have been able to pick her up by sliding my hands underneath her and lifting her under her feet, as if she were standing on my hands, so I place her on a soft towel, and took her into the yard for some fresh air and sun. She barely stayed awake for any of it. Her head goes down and sort of wobbles back and forth. I will miss her. She was the first of my neighbor's chickens to come up the hill and make friends with me- little independent thing, used to lay a big tan egg in the horse barn. She will be remembered always - if she hadn't come up the hill, I never would have researched chickens, found this website or all of you.
