Lucky the crested legbar |
I have split the run at home on a temporary basis so that lucky has a small run and can see custard and the gang. Her home during the day is a plastic box, which she seems to have taken to quite well, laying a lovely blue egg almost every day.
At night, she has settled onto a lovely routine, perching on the plastic box and then letting me pick her up, carry her to the hen house and pop her on a perch with the other hens.
There is no fuss or bullying as they are all rather dopey at night. Every morning I then have to collect her from the perch and carry her to her run. Cute in a way but not something I fancy carrying on forever. I just hope the integration will work.
The other distraction is Treacle the broody Speckeldy hen sat of 6 duck eggs. Time seems to have flown by, as we are now on day 23 of 28. I'm excited to see ducklings being raised by a hen, but I am a little nervous, as my lack of secure land is still an issue, and I fear that I will not find any in or near by my village.
Going forward the main project is finding land anyway possible, in the mean time, the back garden is turning into a poultry palace.
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