Big news! Circumstances dictated that Henrietta henceforth be known as Henry. We suspected this might happen after seeing the development of his/her comb and waddle but when I heard the new sounds coming from the garage, it was confirmed. I'm starting to wonder if we shouldn't consider professional gambling, having beaten the odds and gotten a rooster twice (the odds being a 1 in 10 chance that a chick will turn out to be a rooster, and we got one in our first batch of 5 chicks, and another in our second batch of 4 chicks).
Secondly, the Chickies, as our new birds have come to be known, graduated from the big tote in the garage to the backyard. We expected they would sleep in the coop with the original group, but the older chickens wouldn't leave them alone. They picked on (pecked) the younger ones, so the Chickies, preferring to sleep in peace, which I can't blame them for, found a different place to sleep: the rafters of the run. We tried a few times to bring them into the coop, but they always huddled as close as they could together to try to stay away from the Big Chickens, and the next night they would just go back to sleeping in the rafters of the run. At some point, Henry decided he liked sleeping in the coop, so he goes in there at night while the younger hens still sleep in the run.
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| (Chickies huddled on the right side) |
In other news, Hei Hei, who'd been taking a break from laying for several months, finally started laying again. The eggs were small, just like when the hens first started laying, which I found interesting.
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| I just like this view, with the lavender someone else left in the yard for us in the foreground. |
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