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Wisteria sitting on my horse Cherokee's back

 

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This morning as I was leaving the coop I heard what sounded like a young cockerel learning to crow coming from inside the coop. At first I thought it was Huckleberry but him and Pumpkin were both outside.
So I went in the coop to see who it was and it was Marshmallow! After she crowed she sneezed once or twice then kept crowing.

I'm worried that she is crowing because she can't breathe or has something in her throat?

Pearls crowed before but she didn't turn into a rooster.

And I got a video of it.

 

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I took Huckleberry on a horse ride a couple days a go, he seemed to enjoy it.

 

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Peanut

Snowberry

A horrible looking marshmallow

 

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Marshmallow crowed again this morning.

 

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I swabbed some chickens throats. They don't have gapeworm.

I've trained Huckleberry to come and sit between my legs when I squat down. And we have this thing where I'll take him far away from the coop and other chickens and let him go then I'll follow him and block him from going anywhere, then he'll turn to face me and lay down in the grass and I'll squat down. After a little bit he'll walk off and we'all start over. The last time I did it it took him and hour to come and sit between my legs. Today when I did it he came to me after about seven minutes!

He's getting tamer!

 

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I think all the chickens are molting now, only getting two eggs a day. One from Pebbles and I think one from Dot.

Huckleberry hates being caught outside the coop so I worked in that today. I put him in a pen and when I walked towards him he would freak out. Then he would come and sit between my legs and I would calm him down. Then if let him go again and catch him and he would be a little calmer than the last time. He's really smart. He flew out of the pen a couple times but eventually I got him to where he would come and go between my feet if I stepped in front of him and made a V with my heels touching. Then I could bend down and pet him, and give him a little food and then walk away and come back and he wouldn't go anywhere. He learns really fast and is so smart, I didn't really think chickens were that smart I guess, he's kinda like training a dog but I don't use treats.

I don't like training any animal with treats I guess. If I train my horse with treats he'll only do something if I have the treats on me and then he'll look all over for them. Plus he's fat so treats aren't good for him. Our dog does good with treat training I guess but gets a little too excited and doesn't do the trick right. I've tried to train a chicken to do a figure 8 between something with corn and it went horribly. Maybe that just wasn't a very smart chicken, I dunno.

 

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Marshmallow crowed this morning. I'm starting to worry she is actually turning into a boy. I put Huckleberry in her cage and usually marshmallow picks in him and he's scared of her but to day the had a full out rooster fight and huckleberry won. This is good because before marshmallow wouldn't let him mate her. But afterwards he just kept picking on her even though her head was buried in a corner so I took him out.

 

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Also, tomorrow after school we are leaving to visit friends in Iowa, I think we're coming back Sunday. So I won't be updating those days.

 

[NathanZee]

How old is Marshmallow? She certainly looks like a hen to me? She is the one who raised the chicks right?