Morning.
Sorry about the chick Layers.
Animals are better equipped to deal with a physical injury than humans, they do not remember what was, or feel sorry for themselves, they just go on with life with what is. Especially prey animals that know instinctively showing an injury or weakness is a sure way to get picked off by a predator.
Speaking of illness or physical injury, sorry you're under the weather BC. Might I suggest a day of blackberries in the form of brandy interspersed with peppermint schnapps on ice?
Ivie May the funeral go as well as they can. Condolences.
Erli, I loved the early snarkiness! "remove its head"!
I pulled what I think is a hen from the rooster pen. 3 eggs in 3 days tells me I made a minor error in identifying roosters. It is a EE/PC cross, what a bird. It is larger than a PC with a lot of the same coloring but a black hen. A beautiful bird. Because of her size I thought she was a rooster, but her body type looks henlike. I will get pictures of her after she lays and egg and I know she is a she. Her eggs are extra large and olive green. When I crossed her mother to ED I wanted green eggs, so I am happy. If it is a her.
I have a couple others in there that could be hens. Some breeds are so hard to tell hens from roos. I find the BA hard to tell apart too.
I have a trap out, I have been wanting to check, but I am forcing myself to stay in the house for another hour to give the critter a chance to get caught if it is a morning feeder. I am sure my "bait" is wanting me to get him out of there soon. I found a way to use a bait bird and keep it safe. I attached a milk case to the end of a livetrap with HUGE cable ties, locking the "bait " safely inside the case. I know it sounds cruel and maybe, but it is a rooster I would have had to cull if I did not use it this way. I cannot keep it in the birds it's age pen, as it beats the crap out of the other birds. I tried to put it in the young rooster open and they beat the crap out of it.
It has not learned to be humble. If the other birds stop picking on it, it turns and attacks the others, 2-3 at a time. We thought about eating it but there is no meat on it as it is a teenager. So it has become "the goat" in the lion hunts you see on TV. (Ok judge me now)
Time to see what else is new on BYC.. back in a few.
