Today was yet another bittersweet day with the flock. Had to put “Big Gray” to sleep.
Between last Thursday & Saturday the Roo’s and a couple hens found a sneak thru between the sides of the runs.
Big Gray got attacked in his personal run area because one or both of the other Roo’s got too full of themselves and busted through the wire cloth.
I was outta town and wife & kiddo found “Big Gray hiding with dried blood on his head and both eyes looks pecked at. So on the phone call I learned he was now completely blind.
He was the original lead Roo for the main flock’s 1st 3 years.
Poledark challenged him and took over sometime in year number 4 and 5-6 months later “Big Gray looses an eye” from a tussle in the yard. So I gave him the Batchelor pad for the last 6-7 months I guess.
During this time I finally get around to fully redesigning the inside of the coop.
Butidigress….
Our 20-something numbered flocks have dwindled this year.
Silkies were 7-8 this time last year. Now, 5. Lost two earlier this month to a predator.
Big flock is now 8 from 14-15 this time last year.
The silkie hatchlings from March/April started out as 6. As of last week when the predator got the silkies one of the hatchlings died over night in their crate. So now it’s just the 2 hatchlings. I hope they are both hens.
I have not carefully inspected their saddle feathers but, they both are fanning their tail feather like the big hens do… (shrugs)
The hatchlings are in the lower right nest area of this pic I just took.
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So later this week I have to get some
Detailed pics to update the coop’s build thread.
, is the red skin, red fruit. Nice and sweet. My other variety that will not bloom for another year, is the yellow Jamaican (I think) and suppose to be sweeter! I was not much of a fan of the df untill I had the red/red. Stuck the ripe fruit in the fridge and it was as good as ice cream with out the hangover. I'm hoping we get delicious fruit from our red/red dragonfruit. Be a bummer if HD mislabeled it 
