Sooo we went away for the weekend and we returned to find chicken carcasses around the back yard. Whatever ate them mostly ate our fat laying hens, which sucks. We're thinking it was coyotes, but not sure. Reasonings: found a few with their entrails eaten out - coyote or predator sign. Found other in different areas w/o any disembowling but simply head bitten off or toyed with... might be dog. but all in all it kind of sucks. Those were the laying hens we were hoping to gift to people as they were already laying and were reliable. Instead they left mostly the weaker of the layers.. which sucks but still.
... time off for McGee to flip out and attack Calvin.. aparently Calvin has been a butt towards him all day... Calvin is now letting me know that McGee is killing him and that I should save him... I wish he would learn how to pick his battles...
Moving on..
Dorkings are getting bigger ... heck so are the White Faced Black Spanish and the Blue andalusians.. Due to the death of the older chickens we might have too many roosters at the moment which means we'll be eating some roosters this fall. Most likely the Blue Andalusians since I am not taken with their deamenour nor their looks. They're not bad, just not what I want. If someone would like to raise the BA please let me know and I'll save them for you guys. Otherwise they're going to the freezer.
The roosters keep trying to crow and it's hilarious. =) The bantams sound so cute and Jed has taken a liking to them. The roosters have also been trying to assert their dominion over the chickens.. which doesn't go well as the older ones are not taking any of their lip. If one of them tries to mate with them or to over power them the older chickens just pecks them until they run away. It makes me smile... and sometimes laugh until my tummy hurt. They just keep trying. We'll see when they get big enough.
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