hehehe to many game.. maybe, but that depends on if you were watching my neighbor's stupid dog, run for its life or not! the hens have about a dozen chicks, and the roos have decided to be super protective now of the hens, poults, chicks and eggs, which is odd, as before i let the hens brood some eggs and chicks, only the one hen and roo cared about them at all, now theyre kickin butt on everything that tries to come close as the chicks grow. I got cut by my fav cockrel, again, after so long of our truce, while trying to take a fresh egg from under a hen.. got clawed and scraped up by his wings, and glad his spurs havent started growing in yet! then after i moved away from the hen house into the light, i called him, and he flew right to me ans was sweet as can be again.. not sure if i should be upset, glad he is doing a good job, or feel stoopid for not wearing baseball cap and gloves to collect eggs. my games seem to have figured out that the silkies are fellow chckens finally, and now the roos are trying to figure out if they should try to mate, or fight the puff balls (i watch very close when silkies are out though). so far the courting is starting to win out over the curiousity the roos have, and the silkies also look confused, though they always kinda do.. its odd i know part of it is fluff, but my silkie youngsters seem same size or larger than my other birds, and theyre half the size of the adults that were for sale, but was under impression silkies were mostly a bantam breed??? didnt notice this till right after got the silkies home, then thought that id gotten the young runts! well if are trio, ill have meat babies to raise up, and assume feather fluff will just roast off, or just nice silkies to sell later, or brood my game chicks so my games dont loose condition and lay more (i think my games lay better tasting eggs than the layers i had).
