The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[speckledhen]

I have a broody Delaware, believe it or not - but no eggs for her for sure. She is stubborn though.

Not one of mine ever went broody, though I was told that the line they came from did occasionally. Good thing since I really had plenty of them. Cora, Bash's daughter, finally snapped out of it and at this point, no one is broody, thank goodness. It's way too hot.
My son is coming up here today on his day off to get my old computer that I bought after the house fire. It's a really good one, fast processor and 1TB hard drive. That boy was still running Windows Vista, if you can believe it. It's my other son who is a computer whiz, not this one, for sure. I have one tech savvy fiction writer who saves money and loves to travel all over the world and one who is an artist, loves music (if you can call it that, LOL) and can't seem to save a dime, always running from his debt-can't-catch-a-break type. It's like two halves of the brain or something.

 

[speckledhen]

My son's published books, made for probably pre-teens and younger teens.

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[oldhenlikesdogs]

Cool. Looks intriguing.

 

[getaclue]

That's wonderful!

 

[1muttsfan]

Just the kind of books I liked as a kid

 

[Leahs Mom]

Happy Independence Day!

 

[getaclue]

 

[h2oratt]

Happy fourth.!

 

[speckledhen]

This morning, I was cleaning Hector's pen, heard a ruckus, looked over and saw June, 10+ year old EE, June, beating the heck out of Wendy, yet again. Wendy, if you recall, is Atlas's 4 yr old sister. I swear, she must do something to buck protocol in there and June just will not have it! At least, since Atlas removed Wendy's entire comb (still can't get over that), June can't bloody her up too much. June is quite the large-and-in-charge head hen still, with Georgie second in command. When those two are gone, I'm not sure what to do. Neela, one of the Blue Rocks who, though barely able to walk and quite thin and frail, can muster up quite the smack-down when she wants to. Even Wendy, who is twice her size and half her age, doesn't mess with Neela much.

Jill is healed up sufficiently now to remove her protective saddle. It took a very long time for that bad side wound to heal, but it was steady. I clipped Hector's nails and snipped the pointy spur ends, but he has one spur that sort of points downward and that may have been part of what happened, even though usually, it's the toenails that cause the wounds on the hens.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Just my 2 cents (and it's worth what you pay for it)....

A few years ago I had a bird that would just attack the others for no apparent reason. I tried many things to change that behavior...for way too long. (Everything you can think of, I did.)

I finally decided to remove the one that was causing the problems which resulted in the most amazing peace for the rest of the flock. Had another a year or so later and removed her much quicker.

I hate to do it, but leaving them causes misery for the rest of the flock and the peace/rest that they had afterwards was enough to convince me that it was the right thing to do for them. It also removed that burden of worry for me.