New Neighbors

Hi All,
Since our last post we've gotten some new neighbors. One of them has been in the neighborhood for a few weeks. We've seen her visiting others in the neighborhood but she finally came by to introduce herself the other day.

Dulce Dos talking to Susan

She had to check out the chicken tractor

We've named her Dulce Dos after a friend's pet / tame deer Dulce. Susan and I were working on cleaning out the chicken tractor when Dulce walked up, very quietly, and nudged the back of Susan's arm with her nose. Susan liked to jump out of her skin, not knowing anyone or anything was behind her.  Dulce Dos stayed around about 30 minutes, following us around to see what we were doing. She and Duncan got along ok at first but then she seemed to be getting jealous of Duncan so she charged him once or twice to run him off. Duncan stayed clear of her after that.

Today we added two new neighbors.

Buffy has been sitting on some eggs for what we thought was two weeks, guess it's been at least three.

When we noticed Buffy sitting on eggs, she had three. While a hen sits on eggs she won't lay more eggs. Obviously when Buffy would take a break to eat or drink another hen would jump up there and lay an egg and add to the clutch. Breakfast was suffering so Susan wrote numbers on the eggs and from then on we'd take any new additions. That was after the clutch had grown to nine. Looks like they are stating to hatch.

One correction from the last post. As the turkeys have gotten bigger and their coloring has changed we've decided one of the Bronze has survived. That makes the count three Bourbon Red, three Narragansett and one Bronze.

That's it for now.
Take care.
Brian