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Petit Blanc to the rescue! He's a hero
I don't know if he actually did much to convince the hen... apart from being a good rooster with the hens in general !Beautiful story about Amelia & Petit Blanc.. he has a beautiful character and is an amazing rooster.
I'm glad the rehoming worked so well. I made a mistake with him, he was a bit human weary as a cockerel but he trusted me enough to come close. I was worried when Léa the broody had ticks on her face and I caught him and held him even though he was struggling to check him, and after that he was terrified of me and never came near again. Happily, it was only me and not humankind in general, because although he is still aloof my neighbour says she has been able to tend him very calmly when it was needed.
The weather was better today than expected, no rain and warm enough though there was no sun. The chickens had a nice day, even Blanche.
My partner cleaned the hives that had wax moths. The chickens love that as treats, and Blanche was even allowed to help cleaning up.
Nieva is with Kara, the chicken worrying me now. She is still scratching and picking off her feathers even though she has no lice left. I don't know if she has some left over irritation or something else.
Chipie is still thinking about going broody !
Laure has been doing something interesting for about ten days. First time I noticed was when I applied pyrethrin powder on her at night. She made a horrific scream, like something out of a horror movie. Now she is making that same scream whenever Théo comes near. And it works : it seems to scare Theo away ! I need to try to record this.
Blanche spent most of the day outside. By four she was zonked out and went straight to sleep when I put her in the crate.
These are both rooster's torn spurs.
Gaston's on the left is 5 cm /2 inches long ; Théo's is 7 cm /2.7 inches.
Because Gaston is such a bigger rooster, it looked to me like his spurs are small, quite small indeed compared to Théo's. But now I wonder since he broke one if we should trim or cut the other ?
We ended up shortening Théo's other spur by 2 cm ; I'm not sure about Gaston, who doesn't seem uncomfortable or bothered at all.