So much for that work done with Sneaux. She just crossed a line. She came at my face and tried to rip off one of my nostrils. That was no accident, that was an attack. Guess I have decision to make.
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This morning I built a small pen next to The Inn and put the bullied Easter egger in it. She stood very still for a few tense moments but she was just getting her bearings. The first thing she did was take a dust bath. Then she explored the nest box and made the shavings into a little nest...
At the moment it's black Australorps. They seem to be the only ones in our flock who don't bully and aren't bullied. They have great, soft black eyes, they're friendly, and lay beautiful brown eggs.
Today for the first time we got eggs from all three of the bullied hens. I'm taking that as another indicator they are doing well.
One of the Easter eggers is now at the bottom of the pecking order. I wanted to move her to The Inn with the others but she freaked out when I tried, so I left her...
Thank you.
A friend of mine has migraines. This helps her: she sucks on peppermint Altoids for the peppermint oil, drinks Throat Coat tea with sliced raw ginger in it, and lays down on a bean bag couch in a dark, quiet room.
Bean bag couches are supposed to be good for insomnia, too, although...
No, we aren't allowed to have roos here. I wish we could have one. A good roo might have kept everyone in line and stopped any bullying before it started. Our hens are so much louder than roos! Whoever instituted the no-rooster rule didn't know much about chickens.
We had a cockerel that was...
Sneaux seems to avoid me now unless I have treats. She has not bitten or pecked at me. If I touch her back she goes to the ground on her own, which is interesting. Those techniques seem to have worked, at least in getting her to recognize I outrank her.
The bullied hens spend about 12 hours a...
This is what the ground looks like here so that's what the chickens have in their run.
I go through about once a day with a cat box scoop and pick up whatever poop I see but it's so dry here that their droppings dry out very quickly and the chickens scratch them right into the dirt, breaking...
It's 2:15 AM and it just hit 48F. I went outside for a while just to luxuriate in the feeling of not-hot. I haven't felt a temperature like that on my skin in seven months. It was glorious. 🥰