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When I opened the coop this morning I could distinguish only three chickens on Gaston's roost ! Léa was already in a nest, and she had chosen the one right next to Cannelle's roost. But no one paid attention, and even Gaston didn't seem to realize and came out of the coop without turning around looking for her.
So she's back to laying after 10 days off from her broody mood ! When she came out I saw Cannelle had already laid before her, also a relief as she hadn't been laying for three days.
Merle laid a bit later in the coop, Piou-piou in the wood shed, and Nougat in the run. Only Chipie had something going wrong: I was intent on following her to see if /where she was laying, and she actually spent two hours in various nests of the coop, screaming for Théo like she does, and singing when she came out, but no egg.
The chickens had a great morning. Théo's team foraged all morning while Gaston's team had great fun helping us to store some pine wood in the shed. They quickly understood that underneath the barks they could find some yummy wood worms and went crazy over them.
Then, however, we had again many raptors flying over : Gallicus hawks, vultures, and small sparrowhawks, all in couples. I don't know what's the heck is going on, it seems there is a raptor convention near our house
.
Gaston has now the behaviour we wished him to have, he goes to shelter in the woodshed, and calls the pullets to him.
Today I brewed them tea with thyme and wormwood and some honey to make it test better. I don't think it will solve the worm issue but it won't harm them.
The rooster's relationship has really gone backwards since we've restricted the netted zone that acts as Théo's territory. I really want to give a chance for the grass to grow back so I'm decided to keep it like this for a other two to three weeks at least. Then, my partner wants to try to use the netting to completely block access to the garden and to keep both teams in the same space, which would be bigger for Théo's team but very restricted compared to free ranging for Gaston's. I will go ahead as keeping the chickens out of the garden is becoming another subject of heated discussion...but I'm sure it won't work. Gaston's team is clever enough to bypass the netting.
Looking for yummy worms. Merle was horrible and kept attacking Léa today.
Here you can see the front of the woodshed. I'm hesitant to paint the steel sheets or grow some perennials so they don't show as much. The part on the right is where we will put a small raised coop.
Morning toilet...and then Gaston had to come show Théo's hen how shiny his feathers and impressive his torso
.
Dustbathing sequence... Théo got both Blanche and Cannelle to run. I'm actually beginning to wonder about getting a saddle for Blanche or isolating her in the evenings as she's getting tired and looking in pain again.
The flipping thing
You Talkin' to me ? Notice the bended knee posture- to muster up the ki ?
Throwing wood chips (?) on her after laying.
She did it. She flew on the table and grabbed cake in the pan before I could react. We have a monster here.
So she's back to laying after 10 days off from her broody mood ! When she came out I saw Cannelle had already laid before her, also a relief as she hadn't been laying for three days.
Merle laid a bit later in the coop, Piou-piou in the wood shed, and Nougat in the run. Only Chipie had something going wrong: I was intent on following her to see if /where she was laying, and she actually spent two hours in various nests of the coop, screaming for Théo like she does, and singing when she came out, but no egg.
The chickens had a great morning. Théo's team foraged all morning while Gaston's team had great fun helping us to store some pine wood in the shed. They quickly understood that underneath the barks they could find some yummy wood worms and went crazy over them.
Then, however, we had again many raptors flying over : Gallicus hawks, vultures, and small sparrowhawks, all in couples. I don't know what's the heck is going on, it seems there is a raptor convention near our house
.Gaston has now the behaviour we wished him to have, he goes to shelter in the woodshed, and calls the pullets to him.
Today I brewed them tea with thyme and wormwood and some honey to make it test better. I don't think it will solve the worm issue but it won't harm them.
The rooster's relationship has really gone backwards since we've restricted the netted zone that acts as Théo's territory. I really want to give a chance for the grass to grow back so I'm decided to keep it like this for a other two to three weeks at least. Then, my partner wants to try to use the netting to completely block access to the garden and to keep both teams in the same space, which would be bigger for Théo's team but very restricted compared to free ranging for Gaston's. I will go ahead as keeping the chickens out of the garden is becoming another subject of heated discussion...but I'm sure it won't work. Gaston's team is clever enough to bypass the netting.
Looking for yummy worms. Merle was horrible and kept attacking Léa today.
Here you can see the front of the woodshed. I'm hesitant to paint the steel sheets or grow some perennials so they don't show as much. The part on the right is where we will put a small raised coop.
Morning toilet...and then Gaston had to come show Théo's hen how shiny his feathers and impressive his torso
.Dustbathing sequence... Théo got both Blanche and Cannelle to run. I'm actually beginning to wonder about getting a saddle for Blanche or isolating her in the evenings as she's getting tired and looking in pain again.
The flipping thing
You Talkin' to me ? Notice the bended knee posture- to muster up the ki ?
Throwing wood chips (?) on her after laying.
She did it. She flew on the table and grabbed cake in the pan before I could react
. We have a monster here.
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Thanks for the link; I'll have a look now. Edited to add: good read!
. I checked Merle and she doesn't have any injury, Léa I will have to check at night as she is too afraid of me. 
. Though Piou-piou would probably prefer to die than to be separated from him.
