Tallulah is still not looking good, lethargic with pale comb. I am doing a shot in the dark move, giving her Penicillin injections, just in case there is infection from a crushed egg inside her. Maybe one of the boys jumped her as an egg was coming down the pike, who knows? I don't know if it will help, but I had to try, her being so young. I took her outside in better light where Tom was sitting on a chair and I held her while he injected her. When I took her back inside, I went inside their pen and was pulling the door closed behind me before I put her down. Angus apparently took exception to me holding her and that big lug ran over and bit me on the side of the calf, twice! Thankfully, I had jeans on or it would have broken the skin. He will get a second chance because it's been such a long process to get to this point with them and of the two I kept, he's the better cockerel overall. I'll chalk it up to immaturity. He needs to learn that these are my girls first and foremost. I did "walk him around" some to express my disapproval. A rooster has not done that to me for holding a hen in the entire time we've raised chickens.
Ethel gave us her first egg today so two of the four are laying now.
