What the Chook!

Little Egg was one of our incubator hatched eggs this year. Alas we had a poor hatch rate and only 2 of 9 made it to the final few days before hatching. Both pipped but then one chick died in it’s shell. Only Litte Egg (the smallest egg from the batch) hatched.

Little Egg aged about 2 weeks

Still Little Egg is a real character and has become very attached to me and my yellow Crocs :p

Little Egg is now about 8 weeks old and I’ve decided we have another cockerel sigh I was so hoping for one pullet this year. And to top it off, Little Egg is a frizzle, so has curly feathers instead of smooth. Not something I had asked for when buying the hatching eggs. I’d wanted gold partridge and lavender eggs was all :p

Anyways, Little Egg is now in the big run with all the others during the day. Otherwise he’ll become too attached to my feet and will never really socialise and mix with them. I’d tried introducing him to a new blue hen, in the hope they would become pally, but it was not to be. Little Egg freaked out and then she started picking on him and he got too distressed. He’s been in a small enclosed run in the main run for weeks now each day, so the others are all used to seeing him around. And have been good in just letting him be and do his thing. They put up with him. He still comes in at night however as I really cannot get him to settle in the hen house.

Still all being well Little Egg will have a friend arriving soon, closer to his size and age, to try to befriend.

Little Egg out and about today

Filed under: Pekin Bantams on August 26th, 2007