The bedtime routine is now sorted and easy. Gold has become totally used to me and follows my hands when I am clearing up and my boots as I move around. She almost follows me out of the dividing gate if I’m not careful. She also gets right up to the camera when I am taking photos.
Storm doesn’t mind my hands at all and allows me to get close and to touch her but doesn’t follow my every move like Gold does.
Snowflake remains cautious and doesn’t like me to get close to her at all.
Gold and Storm will now peck at spinach from my fingers and they like to peck at my boots.
I have given the new girls a little chopped tomato in one of the white dishes I use for treats and they love it. The first time they were flicking it out of the dish but they are now used to pecking it from the dish.
It’s all going really well. Over the next few days I will open up the bottom part of the run for them and get them used to a bigger space. After that I will start putting all the girls together for a short time each day to get them used to each other.
At the end of April I will be able to mix the girls as the new girls will be old enough for layer pellets then. It will be good to have one flock again.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
It looks like Gold is going to be super-tame in no time!!
She is. It has surprised me but a nice surprise. xx
They are such nice looking girls.
They are aren’t they!
Delighted that all seems to be going so well. Two tame out of three is not bad going; sometimes, they never overcome that nervousness to approach us – I had the extremes in Galaxy and Dart, both bought from the same breeder at the same time.
I am happy with two tame out of three this soon. Spot was very nervous and it has taken a good few months for her to be fine close to me. I was beginning to think she would always be nervous and then suddenly she grew in confidence and now is the same with me as the rest of the girls. I am happy for it to take time. I have just opened up the bottom part of the run to give the new girls more space and taken some photos so there will a post very soon.