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Update on the flock:
They just moved to a different coop! It's an 8x8 coop that's already attached to their run. Most of the coop's floor was redone, including a couple of floorboards. My amazing Mom did all that work. I put in the perches and got the rest setted up.
For the first time in a long time, the flock actually gots a waterer in their coop, because the coop is it enough for one. Not only that, the flock now has comfortable place to be for when I go camping soon.
Beth and Shiloh seemed to like the coop right away, but the chicks were confused. They wanted to go back into their old coop. Not to mention, I put up a little bit of netting at their favorite escape spot to discourage them from escaping.
Tonight, surprisingly, I had three of the pullets on the perches. That was: Amber the Crossbeak, Lilac the Thief, and Sarah my favorite. There was a few trying to roost on the nesting box, and a few outside getting tangled up in the new netting. Those outside ended up finding their way to the coop once the light was there, except for Macy and Victoria, who was perching outside on the gate in the netting.
I got them all arranged on the perches as I saw fit. The top perch birds (including Beth) all crowded to one side trying to escape Shiloh and her nighttime weirdness. She bothered everyone with her loud complaining that I think will eventually turn into crowing if she keeps it up, and her mindless violent pecking (she drew blood with that on Beth's back a couple of nights ago). This mindless violent pecking is the reason why everyone was crowding to one side trying to get away from her.
(The mindless violent pecking and her loud and constant complaining is all new behavior since the rehoming of the Originals, which included Aundria, a Blue Rock whom Shiloh had gotten very close to. The mindless violent pecking is only while Shiloh is half asleep, thankfully, so she doesn't do it during the day. But at night, she'll actually peck me, or the air, thinking it's some bird that isn't there.)
They just moved to a different coop! It's an 8x8 coop that's already attached to their run. Most of the coop's floor was redone, including a couple of floorboards. My amazing Mom did all that work. I put in the perches and got the rest setted up.
For the first time in a long time, the flock actually gots a waterer in their coop, because the coop is it enough for one. Not only that, the flock now has comfortable place to be for when I go camping soon.
Beth and Shiloh seemed to like the coop right away, but the chicks were confused. They wanted to go back into their old coop. Not to mention, I put up a little bit of netting at their favorite escape spot to discourage them from escaping.
Tonight, surprisingly, I had three of the pullets on the perches. That was: Amber the Crossbeak, Lilac the Thief, and Sarah my favorite. There was a few trying to roost on the nesting box, and a few outside getting tangled up in the new netting. Those outside ended up finding their way to the coop once the light was there, except for Macy and Victoria, who was perching outside on the gate in the netting.
I got them all arranged on the perches as I saw fit. The top perch birds (including Beth) all crowded to one side trying to escape Shiloh and her nighttime weirdness. She bothered everyone with her loud complaining that I think will eventually turn into crowing if she keeps it up, and her mindless violent pecking (she drew blood with that on Beth's back a couple of nights ago). This mindless violent pecking is the reason why everyone was crowding to one side trying to get away from her.
(The mindless violent pecking and her loud and constant complaining is all new behavior since the rehoming of the Originals, which included Aundria, a Blue Rock whom Shiloh had gotten very close to. The mindless violent pecking is only while Shiloh is half asleep, thankfully, so she doesn't do it during the day. But at night, she'll actually peck me, or the air, thinking it's some bird that isn't there.)
