Not much new to report this week. The girls are happier and more content without the roosters bothering them. We visited our roosters at their new home on Friday. They are very happy there, but won't leave the chicken run even though the gate is left open during the day to encourage them to go outside and forage. Our pullets have taken to roosting in the window above their nesting boxes. I heard a loud banging against the window while I was in the sauna garden the other evening. I panicked because I thought they might be under attack. When I went to investigate, I saw two of them in the window pecking at bugs flying around outside. I had to laugh. Louie has had to put up more screen to keep them from breaking the window and/or denting their beaks. They are vicious when on the hunt for bugs. Now we're just waiting for eggs. It will probably be this fall before they start laying.
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Happily eating bugs. I've had to put up more chicken wire
to keep them from devouring my zinnia seedlings. I'm sowing
more seed today. They ate all but three of the emerging plants.
I'm learning. We will live peacefully together -- as long as they
start producing eggs. I'm waiting. |
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Those chickens in the window are keeping their eyes on the
bug prize. |
