Don't Count Your Chickens etc. etc. .....

However, there could well be a boost to the number of bantams at our place in the next few days!

 Ten under this girl.

 

and 15 under these two.  Yes two!   In total, the number of eggs being incubated by these three are 25.

 The two sisters have quietly co-existed for the last few weeks.  Getting up at the same time to have a bit of a break - and then racing back to the nest.

Which leads me to wonder - what exactly is going to happen when (potentially) 15 chicks hatch?

They all have to move anyway - at the moment they are sitting on the 'mezzanine' level of the bantam boutique.  I have a large - hopefully fingers crossed - snakeproof enclosure ready to move them into.

This little one should be fine with hers.

What to do however with the two hens/15 chicken situation.

Looking for some help here - 

PLAN A - separate roughly half the chickens and put them into separate cages with each mum

PLAN B - well I don't really think that would work, but Plan B was to let them work it out themselves.  I can only see that ending badly.

PLAN C - I separate them but let them co-exist in a communal type arrangement.

Any thoughts or ideas welcomed.  Preferably in the next couple of days!  I probably should have separated them earlier, but they seemed pretty happy together.

Till next time at bantam central.

cheers Wendy

Maria

Yes fruit fly here too - we have had limited success with those fly trap gadgets, but still won't plant any more after the end of October. 

Fiona from Arbordale Farm 

Yes - totally weird!

Coal Valley View

Strange but true Mel!