Bright Minds Homestead

Sir Van Stormy III has taken over the flock as head rooster and with 4 out of the 6 chicks hatched yesterday belonging to him, it is safe to say he wants me to see everything he has to offer genetically.

Iris Rose Osbourne was our first Van baby and she has been nothing short of amazing personality wise as well as foraging desires. She is a great egg producer, just smaller in size than I would like for meat purposes, however the cockerels produced by Van from Buffy's current clutches are huge and that gives me hope that size will be more with the cockerels than the pullets and I will be able to breed for larger hens on a taller frame by taking the largest pullets back to Van.

It was moving day for Buffy, the how bout those cowboys, and the writers guild. Mama is showing them the run and hopefully will put all 27 to bed in the coop attached. Preliminary counts are very depressing on the pullet front, but that means a positive for our freezer.

*Buffy tried extremely hard to get all the babies to understand where bed was. Sadly, about a dozen or so of them were sharing 1 braincell and couldn't figure it out. 30 minutes later plus a lot of sweat (from me 😥) and all babies were able to be snug with mama.*

The leader of the chicken army is currently training them to do the stand and stare. Looks like these 3 have a pretty good idea. Any good leader makes sure their troops have support. With unlimited piggy back rides, Buffy provides!