Last week Bo, from Bonanza, or just Beau, came to the farm. He will be catching many mice coming winters and is already exercising taking fat flies down. He is very curious about the chickens, but they just dont care about him.
Because the rooster Anna only had one wife left in his harem, I bought him some more wives: Ina, Janne and Kaatje. to my surprise Anna has become happy again and shows his ladies proudly around the farm. This did not happen the last 2 months, after 4 chickens became decaptivated by predators, mostly birds. So the new ladies made all fears go away.
When the new ones would be put to bed, at 22.00, they saw some very attractive green grass they did not have on their last place. So I thought, ok, after 2 hours in that box, you deserve som gooddies. But within 5 minutes thy something even bigger and greener. Can you imagine, they flew off to the forest!
Luckily at 23.00, dark because of clouds, I found two of them. Kaatje, the last one, I hoped she would survive the night out there totally alone. I got up at 05.30 to see how all the others were doing, together with the 2 intruders... and let them outside at 06.45 to make chicken noise so hopefully Kaatje would come to join. And she did! At 07.40 the whole chicken family was complete.... and I very exhausted after that very short night.
Luckily also Belindas feathers - his only wife for several months - slowly come growing back now Anna can devide his sexual attention to 4 ladies.
