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Legs got into a match today he didn't ask for and got slapped around very quick by a fast moving silkie satin blue. They both were out of runs milling around outside them in the middle of a few dozen little game types about 7 weeks old when the silkie rooster hit him before he knew what happened. Usually Legs has always been the instigator but he didn't expect such a small bird to be so quick and in his face before he could get prepared to defend himself. I had to separate the two of them before one or both of them lost an eye. Legs lost a lot of his pride and there is not a scratch on the little silkie. Legs will be confined to solitary quarters tomorrow as we will be out of town. None of the kids will be out of coops tomorrow while we are out of town. I've been reluctant to leave legs out if we are expecting a visitor as he looks like he is looking go take a hunk out of any stranger that come up. He has never been aggressive to anyone but he sure has the look about him that he could. I need to get a measurement of just how tall he is. I've got 4 Saipan cockerels coming along nicely that I'm sure will need to be kept apart from him.
 
Legs is looking pretty ugly right now. Not sure if it is a molt or if he found some mites of some kind. Any way we took the poultry dust out to his coop and he didn't want to get caught so he jumped up on his roost as if to say you can't get me up here. Well Ma just walked up to him and put her arm around him and gave him a big bear hug that he couldn't get out of and then I held him while he got a good dusting down. He gets quite vocal and talks a lot of trash when he doesn't like being tortured like this. He will still let me catch him and bring him inside to sit in my lap while he gets some treats. He still doesn't try to leave my lap. He sure is looking ugly now across his back and wings.
 

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