Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Pastor Dave]

Mike, I just watched Shawshank Redemption for the first time in a long time. Cheep cheep reminds me of Brooks and his crow Jake. Once he was paroled , he sat in the park feeding the birds thinking Jake might fly by to say hello. Cheep Cheep might just do that too. Was she old enough to go broody, or maybe it's off season for them? Maybe she'll come back in the Spring and make a nest close by.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Sooner or later nature has a way of taking over.....I was really looking forward to seeing her on my trip there, but she has to be what she was created to be.....

 

[Baymule]

Cheep Cheep is liable to tell her new friends, "Hey, I know a place where the food is FREE and all you gotta do is run up and down the dog kennel to amuse the people. They hear the dogs barking, come outside and will FEED us!"

 

[farmerjan]

 

[Mike CHS]

That was and who knows what they will do.

Dave - they breed in the spring here and she will be old enough by then.

 

[Bruce]

Cheep Cheep went off about a month ago and we haven't seen her since. Their is a big flock of female turkeys that lives on the edge of our woods and we had been hearing them calling for quite awhile.

Back with her own. Hopefully they will guide her on living OFF the dole!

I can confirm today that the hardest part about trimming a skittish roosters flight feathers is catching the rooster.

It is easier if you take them off the roost at night.

 

[Mike CHS]

It is easier if you take them off the roost at night.

He roosted about 20' up in a tree and I'm not climbing that at sunset. We consolidated all of the chickens in the big pen but the one rooster continued to fly out at night and go back to his original pen where he roosted in a tree. That worked OK in decent weather but it's getting down into the single digits for the next week. The feather clipping seems to have worked since he is in one of the coops where we want him to be.

 

[Bruce]

My girls voluntarily go back to the coop at night. The only tree they can get into is the ornamental cherry front of the parking area. There aren't any high branches big enough to hold them. Guess I'm lucky!

 

[Mike CHS]

Bruce - this roo was raised with the turkeys in the pen that he kept going back to for the night except now all of the turkeys are gone.

 

[Bruce]

Ah, so he has to learn a "new normal".