Sometimes I'm Really Amazed And Touched...
Aug 3, 2017 19:34:33 GMT
Woodpecker, Tallpines, and 4 more like this
Post by Mari-in-IN on Aug 3, 2017 19:34:33 GMT
And not touched like "touched" (slightly insane, crazy) - ok - maybe sometimes!! 
ANYWAY, the other day "Blue" - our last Ameraucana hen from 2011 was running around the coop nervous in the service and being very vocal for her because she needed to lay an egg and she tends to get picked on... She very rarely lays anymore - here lately she will jump in the storage room and duck in a crate and lay when she can gain entry...
Well, I gave her access to the storage room and in and out she went a couple of times. No go. A little bit later - here she is trying to get underneath "Fella" on the floor of the coop. They are pretty close by the way. They usually hang out together and they are usually close to each other on the roost when I lock up at night. So, anyway, I went back up to the house.
Later on I go back out to the coop and just had to laugh...
It's been a LONG time since I've seen one of my roosters in a nest box clucking away. (Well, he's not really "in" it but you know what I mean... I don't know if he could cram himself into one anymore - he's a big boy!). I figure this is what he was doing to perhaps entice her to lay next to him? Or perhaps she jumped in the box first and he decided to keep her company? Fella never roosts in the coop during the day... See her egg to the left? She NEVER lays on the first tier. It's either on the top tier/in the storage room/or in the corner on the floor where you enter the coop.
Pretty little girl...
Later on that afternoon...
I know some of you will indeed think I'm "touched" but I spend a lot of time observing/tending my birds and sometimes I am truly amazed at some of their "behaviors".
~Mari
ANYWAY, the other day "Blue" - our last Ameraucana hen from 2011 was running around the coop nervous in the service and being very vocal for her because she needed to lay an egg and she tends to get picked on... She very rarely lays anymore - here lately she will jump in the storage room and duck in a crate and lay when she can gain entry...
Well, I gave her access to the storage room and in and out she went a couple of times. No go. A little bit later - here she is trying to get underneath "Fella" on the floor of the coop. They are pretty close by the way. They usually hang out together and they are usually close to each other on the roost when I lock up at night. So, anyway, I went back up to the house.
Later on I go back out to the coop and just had to laugh...
It's been a LONG time since I've seen one of my roosters in a nest box clucking away. (Well, he's not really "in" it but you know what I mean... I don't know if he could cram himself into one anymore - he's a big boy!). I figure this is what he was doing to perhaps entice her to lay next to him? Or perhaps she jumped in the box first and he decided to keep her company? Fella never roosts in the coop during the day... See her egg to the left? She NEVER lays on the first tier. It's either on the top tier/in the storage room/or in the corner on the floor where you enter the coop.
Pretty little girl...
Later on that afternoon...
I know some of you will indeed think I'm "touched" but I spend a lot of time observing/tending my birds and sometimes I am truly amazed at some of their "behaviors".
~Mari
I love when they get their own personalities and their antics are so.....well lets say they make me smile and relieve any stress I may have been under that day...Yes thanks for sharing your story and what a cute couple!
