Last Thursday was celebration day, it was Snowy’s 12th birthday and while Sue and I has a glass of wine, the cats celebrated with some tuna.
And talking of pets that brings me round to Cheep Cheep; he’s been growing fast. This photo was taken around the time G made the outside run for him.
About a week later he was too big for the box we were keeping him in and we moved him to the segregated area in the hen house. After a week there we let him mix with the other hens but put him in the separate run in the chicken enclosure. Eventually he was getting a bit big for that and had learnt to keep out of the way of the other chickens really well so he is now running round on the edge of the flock – being the smallest he is at the bottom of the pecking order.
This photo was taken a short while before G and M left and you can see just how much Cheep Cheep has grown.
Looking at his feathers we think Cheep Cheep is a male. He’s still very tame and will sit on my arm to eat the wheat when I feed the chickens. His friendliness is a good thing on his part, he is now in line for reserve cockerel while the cockerel from the earlier hatching has therefore been renamed Coq au Vin.
Many thanks to M for the pictures of Cheep Cheep.
1 comment:
You're not kidding he's really grown!
Been wondering how you've been doing. Too bad Debs is moving away huh?
Glad to see you're back. I suppose we will get into the swing and sway of winter.
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