HUGE day today! We picked up our sheep!
They are Dorset sheep out of University of Missouri's breeding program. I got them from my Border Collie breeder, so these are dog trained sheep if I ever wanted to teach our own BC to work them. I doubt I will but you never know with ADHD lol
That went smoothly, we got them set up in a temporary pasture while they are shedding from being de-wormed -- the pasture that will be 'theirs' is a fresh clean pasture, no need to infest it with parasites if we don't have to!
Then, we opened the baby pen!
I spent three hours in there just observing - had to kick the ducks out because Spitfire (the girl White Layer) was just guarding the door and not letting anyone out or back in. What a little brat!
As soon as she was gone they all came out and tentatively explored - but it's familiar to them because they grew up just on the floor there haha so it wasn't too much trouble.
Much to my total relief, the big girls showed up later (about 2 and a half hours later) and it was almost anti-climactic. Nothing happened. They walked in and started eating and ignored the little ones as if they were just the wallpaper.
The only chicken who cared was Pepper.
Ah, Pepper... our spicy, talkative Sliver-Laced Wyandotte. Very sweet to us, very bossy to lower pecking order chickens. She is Chuck's #1 groupie. She is OBSESSED with Chuck. Anyway she likes to peck at the necks of the babies but she isn't too hard about it, only does it once, and does not chase. So she's just doing her thing. It's fine. She does it to Pudding and Blanche and Tilly too.
I am worried about Lil Peep -
I let this over crowded brooder go too long.
She was not bleeding yesterday, so that's just today but hopefully it will stop now that there is literally *everywhere* else to get to. I got some bloodstop powder coming. Hopefully we will see how it all goes. This is all my fault and I feel terrible about it. I didn't anticipate this happening. Lil Peep and Oscar don't deserve their feathers being picked :/
I cannot believe they ALL were standing there, but that's all of them in one shot. Absolute vulture era.