The story? Wyatt had talked me into these two pairs of d'Uccles back in the fall. There was already a Silkie roo in the pen, breeding with his hens, but we figured we had until around county fair time to separate them all to prevent any funny babies. And in terms of prevention, we still have time. But his little porcelain d'Uccle, the smallest at this point, has decided he wants to run the bantam pen.
Run the pen? Not likely says the Silkie rooster. So he took to deciding who was allowed into and out of the house and in what order in the evening. Wyatt doesn't appreciate anyone pushing his hens around, so he picked up the little roo, then encourage the hens to resume their walk up the plank into their house the other night. As the ladies seemed to be getting back on track on their own, he sat the roo down on the ground, and turned to check something in the house that I had asked him to.
No sooner did he peek into the door of the house, then little roo jumped on the back of his head. (I had no idea that little one could fly so high!) While perfectly sweet one on one, this was just not going to work. So yesterday we began measuring out what supplies we had, and when we returned home from town this morning, we got out the tools.
These little pens will remain small, around 3x5x5.5, which will be fine as there will be only one pair of bantam birds in each one. Wyatt will be designing the roosting and box locations tomorrow while I am at work, then we will finish the pens and move them into place tomorrow afternoon. For right now, this is how we left things where we were working out b the shed today:
I hope things go quickly tomorrow, because we also had a feeder project planned for the early evening, and we had already had to slide weighing his heritage broilers to tomorrow due to the wind!
Wow, he is keeping me busy! We will catch you up tomorrow!
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