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....or the lack of.
Apart from the usual pecking order squabbling, we don't have much in the way of bullying problems......or so I thought.
I've noticed several dark tail feathers dotted about the chook's area over the past few weeks, but it's difficult to say who's they are. Now, though, it's become apparent that they are from Buffy, my Buff Sussex.
Buffy isn't at the bottom of the pecking order, she's first in line for food and will be quite mean to the other girls if there's a particular morsel she wants for herself. So why has she only got one tail feather left?
I've checked her parson's nose and there are no signs of injury or any redness. The chooks have plenty to interest them, cds, logs, dust baths, a big diggy area, a bark area and there's always a cabbage hanging up or some brocolli or corn on the cob in the afternoons.
Is this a bedtime squabble? The perches in my henhouse are the same height as my nestboxes and although the girls used to perch properly, they all started huddling into the nestboxes when we got Morag & Daisy. We've highered the perches and have been lifting the girls on to them every night, but they don't stay there very long. Buffy's butt now reeks of neat Eau de Gauloise in the form of Ukadex spray.
Suggestions and advice gratefully received!
Jules
Apart from the usual pecking order squabbling, we don't have much in the way of bullying problems......or so I thought.
I've noticed several dark tail feathers dotted about the chook's area over the past few weeks, but it's difficult to say who's they are. Now, though, it's become apparent that they are from Buffy, my Buff Sussex.
Buffy isn't at the bottom of the pecking order, she's first in line for food and will be quite mean to the other girls if there's a particular morsel she wants for herself. So why has she only got one tail feather left?
I've checked her parson's nose and there are no signs of injury or any redness. The chooks have plenty to interest them, cds, logs, dust baths, a big diggy area, a bark area and there's always a cabbage hanging up or some brocolli or corn on the cob in the afternoons.
Is this a bedtime squabble? The perches in my henhouse are the same height as my nestboxes and although the girls used to perch properly, they all started huddling into the nestboxes when we got Morag & Daisy. We've highered the perches and have been lifting the girls on to them every night, but they don't stay there very long. Buffy's butt now reeks of neat Eau de Gauloise in the form of Ukadex spray.
Suggestions and advice gratefully received!
Jules
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