Sunday was the official end of chick season at Sunset; it’s a few weeks late because I had to start late this year, but as you can see the pullets are already starting to bop around the yard. They’re still a little skittish when the adult hens approach, but all of the adults we have now are docile and well-behaved, so I think the pullets will join the flock pretty soon. I’m unsure how the turkey will fit into that; she (?) seems bolder than the pullets, and is already as large as my smallest hen, so we’ll just have to wait and see. But the lamp timer has been put away until autumn, and in a week or two I’ll block off the nursery until March, and by midsummer we should start seeing teeny little eggs from the newcomers, possibly even from the turkey (if she does indeed turn out to be a hen).
Archive for May 27th, 2025
Diary #778
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