Self correction: I have been referring to some of my pullets as Wyandottes but they're WELSUMMERS. doh! Don't know how that got mixed up in my head. 🙄 Anyway, I got my first Welsummer egg today, which means 5 out of my 6 new girls are now laying. 🤗 And because there's always something going on with my animals, I've had to move my two frizzle Easter Eggers into the quarantine coop. Petal (white one) has a nasty habit of plucking her newly growing feathers, making herself bleed. Her sisters, attracted to the red colour, will then peck at her until she has an open wound. This is all happening on her poor little tushy!! So I pulled her out with her sister because a/ Dahlia has never shown any interest in the wound, and b/ we've had some cool nights and Petal needs another chicken to stay warm overnight. I wanted to bring her inside to nurse but we're currently nursing one of our snakes who went through surgery on Tuesday, and the smell of a live chicken will make her impossible to handle without being constantly bitten. And she is STRONG. So the quarantine coop is the best I could do! I'm hoping to use this time to tame these cuties since they're still very shy. ❤️ #chickenhealth #chickenbehaviour #backyardchickens #welsummerchicken #frizzlechicken #easteregger #homegrowneggs #homesteadhensandhoneypod (at Portage Lakes, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdOxzDmOWQr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
