The ladies and the girls

March 13, 2009

We have three new hens. After we lost three to a mink we decided to add three new ones. They arrived a couple of weeks ago and life has not been the same since. Immediately the older hens showed aggressive behavior towards the new ones. One of the new hens even left the hutch as soon as the older ones came in to roost. Better cold than beaten up…. And there was a lot of pecking and feather plucking going on. Time for drastic measures! Claire made a temporary hutch - using an old traveling cage we used for Jingles when he was a puppy - and placed that in the rabbit run and transferred the old hens. This appeared to be a good solution. They will return within a couple of days and we hope that the pecking order is broken by then. The only thing is that we now have a rabbit which is close to a nervous break down….

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  1. Alan Campbell on March 17th, 2009 9:09

    seems Animal Farm had nothing on you guys….. re mink taking hens - possobly a pine marten per “Monty Halls”

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