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microchick said:
She's beautiful, @CSolis. I'm gathering EF eggs today. Only getting 2 a day from the four hens but when I reach 5 they are going into the incubator.

I have a few roosters slated to go to freezer camp. My first day with enforced free ranging for the roosters was a questionable disaster. I have 2 that are MIA. One galloped into the timber across the road and has disappeared, The other disappeared almost immediately after I propelled them out of the coop. A third got the stuffing beat out of him by having the bad judgement to go into the fenced in back yard with the cattle dogs. Poor little guy lost about a third of his feathers and has 6-8 skin tears including two deeper ones by his tail but miraculously no puncture wounds.

I think they saw him as a toy. As long as he was running around that herding instinct kicked in and it was game on but when he stopped fighting them they quit and I was able to rescue him. We thought he was a goner until I petted him and he jump up and ran into the barn.

Tough little roo.

The only sad thing about the missing roos is that one was Old Man, my 5 year old Marek's survivor and his four year old son, O.J. Poor guys survived Mareks' but were done in by free ranging.
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