Liam's new favourite activity is "feeding" the chickens. In reality, this equates to tugging on their feathers and then tossing grain in the air in their general direction in order to get them to come close enough so he can tug on their feathers some more. We are continuing to work on the concept "gentle and soft" so this is very good practice.
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| Tug |
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| Tug |
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| Toss |
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| Tug |
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| Tug -- and repeat... |
A few days ago we spent almost an hour feeding the chickens. Liam was delighted. Delighted might be a bit of a stretch to describe the chickens' feelings about this event, especially those that bore the brunt of the feather tugging. However, all the chickens were good sports and those that ventured close enough got to eat
a lot of snack grain. Perhaps this made enduring a bit of feather tugging worthwhile?
Bee Update:
I did another hive check today to see how the three new queens are doing. They have been in the hives for four days now and I had to go in to make sure that the worker bees had released them from their cages. A queen bee is introduced to the hive in a little white cage with a candy plug.
Over a span of three or four days, the hive acclimatizes to their new queen and the bees eat through the plug to free the queen. The next step is to wait another week to give everyone a chance to settle in before I do a thorough hive inspection to make sure each queen has begun to lay eggs. So far, so good.
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