Well, my chicken farming days have begun, ready or not. The girls (we hope they're all girls--too soon to really tell) have been trying out different roosts. They've rotated around several...will be interesting to see what their final choice is. I noticed Dorothy has a place on a fence several yards down, where she sleeps each and every night. And when Blanche was still around, there was a tree branch she headed to every night as the sun went down. So, I think these girls will pick a place when they find just the right spot, and make that "it". They're still trying out the choices.
I don't have any pictures of them sleeping on the banana stumps, but a couple of nights each picked a stump and fell promptly to sleep. My husband put a ladder up in the bananas to see if they like that, and they've spent a couple of nights there. They like to huddle up together, so 3 were on the top rung, and the one that didn't fit had to descend one level. A couple of other nights they have chosen the fence post and railing, and they cram themselves very close together, and I guess the 2 most dominant get the post. Last night, I noticed two of them trying to fit on top of the post, and one sliding off. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I couldn't resist looking out the window to see how that finally played out. Chicken 2 was asleep atop chicken 1. Voila.
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