Thank you. I tried doing that, but must have missed something!
They are happy. I want to let them out around the garden, but patience must prevail as they need to get used to their surroundings first. They've been living in open fields and barns, so semi rural and dogs is a bit of a novelty to them.
I didn't choose the names. DH did. I wanted to call them other names, but DH has been prepping DS which means 2 against 1 - no fun.
Oh well.
Madras (Rhode Hybrid) is a spritely bird and the smalest. She loves a good forage and has been telling the others to keep off her patch though she doesn't always win.
Balti (Blue Haze Belle) is very docile and quite friendly. She's the oldest & bigest and I think she'll lay first as she's making a nest in coup!
Korma (Sussex) is the smallest and quite timid witht he others. I think she is the youngest. She doesn't have as many black feathers on her neck cape as the other sussex.
Jalfezi (Sussex) is the larger of the two sussex birds. She's in charge. She is has been "pecking" the others to keep them in line. She's got a bit of light brown poo today because she has eaten too much corn. We had to take the corn away because she wasn't letting anyone else near the feeder & we didn't want her eating too much. Instead we've thrown some corn on the ground and Balti and Madras have scavenged for it instead. It looks like her poop is starting to firm up now!
Was a little worried about Korma as she does like to sleep alot. Actually they all do. They like the coup very much and holed up in there for 2 hours at lunch! We decided to drop the coup hatch for a while and they became a lot more friendly and animated. They like to huddle under the coup too, but they seem to use this as their loo area a lot. I've never seen potty trained chooks before! :? :shock:
The weirdest thing was the rabbit took offence to them. She thumped and thumped her cage for 3 hours. I had to sit with her and stroke her to calm her down. Of course when I stopped the stroking she'd thump! me thinks she just wanted attention! :?
Last night was an interesting occurance. Madras decided that she wanted to get out of the pen. This was just before bed time. Dh had opening the roof to remove the feeder and Madras decided it was time to escape. She didn't get out, but was pacing up and down and stalking DH and I to see if we opened the roof again. We didn't. We waited till they were in the coup. This was fun in itself. Having been in barns they were very cagey about the coup yesterday. eventually 3 except Korma went in. Korma refused, so she got a gentle push. She loves it in their now!
anyway rambling. I could go on for hours.
time to put them to bed and depoop the pen!