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OMG this year continues to kick my butt in weird ways! Things were calming down. My husband is working on a new bachelor flock setup, Tengu and Squeak are starting to settle out with see-but-no-touch, Goober is periodically revenge-pooping on Squeak WHY IS HE SO WEIRD being himself, and Vanilla...

Mr Vanilla Bean enjoying a warm spring day (Edit forgot to embed the image in the post, sorry!)

With my luck I'm kind of expecting an oops boy somewhere in the mix...I've read cochins are one of the less accurate ones like BOs for whatever reason. Still, an accidental boy or two would still be a better outcome for me than either mostly/all boys from a small hatch or getting half cockerels...

I saw Cackle had a couple types of sexed large size cochin available at basically the perfect time for Scruffy...so I went for the partridge ones. Cochins were on my radar since Vanilla Bean's dad was a lovely large cochin, but I'd previously thought my only options for something like big...

Beautiful patterns indeed!

Took the plunge and did my first mail order for a few chicks…should be timed pretty well with Scruffy’s broodiness since it will be end of the month. Now the nail biting begins since I have never done this before lol.

Looks like the most responsible thing at this point given the bachelor boy drama may drag out is to do pullets for Vanilla Bean and try to do the ol' switcheroo at night properly with broody Scruffy. Means I have to find a mail order option that will be timed well with Scruffy's broody cycle...

Roos are totally hard mode like everyone says, at least standard sized ones sure are, but I do love 'em. I think my husband wondered for a while what insanity I'd fallen into trying to do a bachelor flock, since basically all of my roos/cockerels went through a husband-biting phase, but I think...

Decisions, decisions...

Oh lord...mistakes were made last night! I decided to top up feeders for the distributed bachelor boys later in the day than was smart (evening time is gremlin time). Somehow I walked straight out of the house to the coops in my very fuzzy house slippers. I don't know why, but ALL of my roos...

That is certainly the temperament I’m looking for…how big are they? My Vanilla Bean boy is about 8lbs and still growing slowly so I’m expecting he might reach 9. He’d flatten my smaller hens. He’s super wide and his feet are also massive compared to my other roos (he leaves tracks the same size...

I need to find out whether Mt Healthy "pads" orders for <6 with cockerels when it's going to a state with annoying rules like NY...if they don't, that would be a good option to have on the table. I don't think I want to get another batch from TSC or another feed store looking for big hens since...

OMG, never ask me to build anything...ever. I was a straight A student in math classes. I can do crazy origami with much more complex geometries - I should be able to build a box. But apparently there is some law of the universe that says I'm not allowed to build a simple butt joint cube out of...

On a lighter note...Miss Chungus continues to improve and loooooooves those really expensive and really stinky cans of moist bugs. Nice red comb, happy sounds, doing really well on her first day off of meds. (Side note: there are no shavings in there because I have had to keep an eagle eye...

Dang...yeah I've wondered if it's a small numbers issue for mine too. Not that I want to try hatching out a bunch only to find that more of them just makes an even bigger mess...I can separate 3 little dorks, but an angry mosh pit of a bunch of roos would be kind of scary. For the moment I have...

Eghads...Squeak is a dragon right now. Kissy-poo with me, kissy-poo with Goober, but otherwise wanting to fight the entire world - including the dog. He is not eating like he should, too amped to do so I guess, so I will have to bring him inside for that in the evenings. When I pick him up he's...

I thought I had the good strong older rooster thing in Vanilla Bean…but he literally gave up last night and was like “ok fine I’ll go sit by myself then” and that somehow attracted more aggression. He’s ok but I removed him. If he was smaller than the 1st spring idiots though it would’ve been a...

I think I should have asked you this sooner when you mentioned your bachelor flock: when that dreaded 1st spring rolls around for new cockerels for that flock, how do you handle that phase? I've clearly messed things up with mine this week due to a routine change up so I'm now trying to figure...

I believe Chungus has managed to peek into the webcam view at least once in every single video call I've had this week. I've learned that she will start bouncing off the walls as soon as she realizes I'm talking to someone, so I gave in and just started putting her on my lap before the meeting...

Well Tengu did not sleep in the coop...Squeak took his sleeping spot and they had another spat over it in the dark when I tried to add Tengu back in. So Tengu slept in the house. Unfortunately Squeak seems to be the actual issue since he's clearly trying to climb the ladder (he's not going to...