It is four weeks today since we collected our three new girls. They still look pretty sparsely feathered, but they are improving. The range fairly freely in their cordoned off bit of the orchard, able to see the other three through the fence but not be bullied by them.Today, in between the snow and rain showers, the sun shon, and to our surprise, the three newbies tried to dustbathe in the damp earth. They even did a bit of sun-bathing, lifting their stumpy little wings to catch the sun.
This must be ingrained behaviour as there is no way they would have been able to do anything like this in their battery cages. So sweet.
No comments:
Post a Comment