Got our first colored egg today! A pretty pale blue/green, so it’s from one of 3 EE (my little scissor beak doesn’t look “ready” to lay to me, but everyone will be 25 weeks on Monday, making the freeloaders 5 weeks passed the late maturity listed on the company’s info pages).
Meanwhile, the whole flock is really going at my little Scissor girl, Shadow! Today, they’ve ripped up her back end! After I put Hen Healer on it, I noticed it’s still weeping blood (she got attacked while I was taking clips off the gate to get in to feed them). Right now, she’s locked in their coop eating her daily feed of mash in her tote (so it makes less mess), but now I’m afraid to open the door and let her be around the rest of them! When she’s done eating, I may go out and sit with them, but my being there with her seems to make them act worse? The rest of them don’t even like me! Shadow loves to be held and snuggled…she’s half their size and always seems “cold”. I know she’s on the bottom of the pecking order, that’s very obvious, but how do I keep them from being so mean (human emotion…I know…it’s silly, but I love my cuddly little breakfast maker).
Meanwhile, the whole flock is really going at my little Scissor girl, Shadow! Today, they’ve ripped up her back end! After I put Hen Healer on it, I noticed it’s still weeping blood (she got attacked while I was taking clips off the gate to get in to feed them). Right now, she’s locked in their coop eating her daily feed of mash in her tote (so it makes less mess), but now I’m afraid to open the door and let her be around the rest of them! When she’s done eating, I may go out and sit with them, but my being there with her seems to make them act worse? The rest of them don’t even like me! Shadow loves to be held and snuggled…she’s half their size and always seems “cold”. I know she’s on the bottom of the pecking order, that’s very obvious, but how do I keep them from being so mean (human emotion…I know…it’s silly, but I love my cuddly little breakfast maker).
