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

[oldhenlikesdogs]

We are in the 30's today. Feels so warm out. I can feel spring. Hopefully we get an early spring. A march warm up would be nice. Unfortunately we can get a lot of snow and cold into April, but weather isn't the same anymore, so maybe. :

Birds are definitely feeling the increased light. Had to lock the oldest rooster up so he doesn't keep getting beat up. Let the young ones beat each other up instead. So far they are just focusing on the old one in the pen through the fence. Geese are getting much louder by the day too.

 

[speckledhen]

Every time I interact with Gunnar, my last remaining splash rooster, I think "Lisa would just love him." He is the sweetest, most precious boy and solidly on the bottom of the heap in dominance. Even crippled Forrest tries to beat him up all the time. I am so glad he appears to have been skipped by that weird, likely genetic thing that lost me Bodie, Axel and Dane. Sadly, he's about to turn 5 yrs old in April so I don't know how long he'll be with me. He is so adorable.

 

[1muttsfan]

Angus will be fine. He just has a surplus of youthful energy. And spring is coming

 

[speckledhen]

Angus will be fine. He just has a surplus of youthful energy. And spring is coming

I agree. I think I was right to be leery of him at first, he's so big and bouncy, but I have a handle on his personality now. He's just a bundle of energy, but he's usually very obedient. When he sees me standing on the deck of my house and is out in the old garden area where they free range, he immediately starts for the pen and almost always goes inside when I tell him.