Monday 7th September was the final ‘move in’ date for our hens. We had two Warrens looked after and given to us by our good friend Andrew and three Pekin Bantams being brought over by our local chicken rearer (who turned up and we then discovered that we got four birds for the price of three, as he chucked (see what I did there!) another one in for free.
So that evening the car laden with boxes of chickens we headed up to the farm.
Initially it was all going so well until one of the Warrens (who we’ve now named Bulls-eye or Bully for short) started to have a go at the smaller Pekins and we had quite a kerfuffle on our hands!
This, we’ve been informed, is the chickens establishing a ‘pecking order’ as there will always be one top hen in the coop.
We’re hoping, given a bit of time this will calm down and every chicken will find its place.
We have admitted to ourselves that this must be like having children, as all we have done over the last few days is worry about the birds!
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