The green looks wonderful I am jealous! The forecast says it will rain finally on Monday every week it has said ‘next week it will rain’ and we are now well over a month!Well, for now he's getting "louder", but not really "better", if you see what I mean.
In my family, we haven't done the Christmas / birthday present thing since we were kids. As teens my parents did a donation to whoever we wanted, and then as adults my mum gets second hand books and horrible trinkets at thrift stores and anyone who wants to, can pick something of his choice
I'm getting really frustrated that we can't move on with redoing the run as it's getting obvious now that we have a housing problem. The chicks/ teens are so scared of the other chickens that they refused to shelter in the coop when we had a horrible storm two days ago and they are still sleeping in that nest hole although they don't fit in there -every evening there's some rough squeezing going on. Gaston has gotten so big that he would barely fit alone! I know they can get to all the other places to roost because if they are alone in the coop, they do. Gaston is excessively terrified and the other chicks who are much less afraid follow him and won't leave him on his own most of the time.
Several storms and rain in ten days turned everything green again, very different from automatic watering. Lea in the growing last phacelie spot.
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Morning niceties and washing
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Théo and Cannelle standing guard while Nougat is laying hidden behind.
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On the chicks, have some patience. As you know I am not seeped in decades of experience, but what experience I have says they will figure it out eventually.
I am not saying don’t keep improving their accommodations, but don’t fret too much. Particularly about them sleeping in that small nook in the wall. When they don’t fit they will move!
When the Roadrunners were small they sooo wanted to be near the big girls at night, but the big girls were having nothing to do with that plan. So the Roadrunners roosted at the top of a window I had cracked open to give some more air flow in the summer. I was desperate for them not to roost there. The window was only open a crack so there was no space!
Eventually one of them face planted trying to get up and cried pitifully until the other came down and they both found a new place. Yours will figure something out.
. I love that the broodies co-raised the remaining three, they're all striking, beautiful colours. I hope queen's next hatch fares better!
! I was very surprised by the sounds chicks make. It's as if they have a whole different language and then they change when they grow up.
