Monday, 12 August 2019

Stone the crows

BigBoy (the Yellow Partridge Leghorn) and Long John Silver (the Silver duckwing  leghorn) have been crowing for some time .  BigBoy has almost a proper crow, just not the shrillness or volume yet; LongJohn has a strangled couple of notes.

Up until this morning,  they would both crow at an unsocuable hour, say 5.30 am,  do about 12 crows each, and then shut up until 4pm.  Then they'd both crow again.

This morning, all started as usual.  Except they wouldn't stop at one verse.  And after the two of them had had a go,  a third strangled squawk could be heard before they all started again.  The third crow is from Bertie Jr.     They started again at about 8am, and I'm sure I heard a 4th crow in there, but I couldn't tell who was the culprit.

They've had more goes during the day,  and is pretty antisocial.

So, they have to go off to the allotment.   We would have taken them today, but  I had to spend most of  the day at the hospital;   so DH got the allotment ready for them, and we're taking them tomorrow morning.

We've decided to leave all the girls here for now.  Only 2 of them are going ot the allotment,  and we don't want to have 2 girls in with 6 boys.   Even though we should have another 6 - 8 weeks before it becomes an issue,  we can't guarantee it. The Leghorn boys have matured really quickly,  and I don't want to have to be worrying about the girls.

Miss Tween is away, I'm really sorry we couldn't wait until she got back.




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