New Rooster Arrived Today

Our girls are in need of a leader.  Ever since Rex's demise they act as if they don't know what to do.  They prefer to take refuge in the hen house rather than scratch around the chicken yard.  With the addition of the new red hens, everything is truly topsy turvy.  Quick!  Introduce some structure back into the flock!

After we lost Rex, my friend and fellow yogini, Catherine, let me know that she had an extra Ameraucana rooster.  Extra roosters are undesirable.  They're not conducive to peace in the chicken yard. The birds at the bottom of the pecking order suffer relentless abuse compliments of the Big Bird, while the hens are accosted at every turn by each and every rooster that can get away with it.

So we have a win-win situation.  Catherine's extra rooster joins my flock.  Catherine's chicken yard calms down.  My chickens acquire a new master to watch over them.

The new boy arrived today and is getting acclimated.  He's currently separated from the rest of the flock, but in full view of the hens.  And let me tell you, there has been a lot of interest shown on both sides of the dividing fence!