{"id":20862,"date":"2021-10-20T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/20\/pullets\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:32:33","slug":"pullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/pullets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Remember the chicks one overjoyed new nine year old got for her birthday? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, much like that nine year old, they\u2019re growing by leaps and bounds. Therefore, they outgrew the small chick cage and moved on to the yard version outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Lady checking on the chicks during a rainstorm after we put a tarp on part of their cage for a rain shelter. She\u2019s a sweet and gentle \u201cmama dog\u201d to any animal we happen to bring home.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With quadrupling their size, our happy pullets then moved on to the deluxe coop recently. They seem to really enjoy the bug buffet in there. And while they flew the coop into our larger yard a couple of times on the first day, they\u2019ve since settled into their new, expanded bird sanctuary as their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have it in the books to upgrade the hutch to an enclosed laying house before heading to South Africa at the end of next month (and about the earliest the pullets could start laying), but for now the old cage is a good perching place and rain shelter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since we don\u2019t have chicken predators within our property\u2019s walls, the fence is there as a courtesy idea to keep dogs, rabbits, chickens and children from mingling 24\/7 (especially when we have neighbor kids over to play) and also makes for easier future egg collecting (less daily Easter egg hunting throughout the yard \ud83d\ude09). Our dogs have very little interest in the chickens, honestly, and have accepted them as \u201cjust another one of us\u201d like our bunnies that have free reign in the yard with the dogs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Sometimes the bunnies come up on the porch and peak in through our \u201cfloor to ceiling\u201d windows to see what we\u2019re up to in the house. Hehe.) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(Eating the dog\u2019s leftover food while the dog watched at a distance without a care. \ud83d\ude02)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(Feeding the Marshmallow a mango while Shadow came over to say \u201chi\u201d.) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, the chicks have grown into teenager pullets, with all their awkward feathers growing in patches like a bad haircut. Haha. But the love for them hasn\u2019t changed one bit. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(\u00c9den posing with \u201cSunny\u201d [in memory of her beloved duck from the States].)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(They even tolerate being interrupted to be pet sometimes.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And this chick mama is still loving her babies as much as ever before. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remember the chicks one overjoyed new nine year old got for her birthday? Well, much like that nine year old, they\u2019re growing by leaps and bounds. Therefore, they outgrew the small chick cage and moved on to the yard version outside. With quadrupling their size, our happy pullets then moved on to the deluxe coop… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,40,52,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enjoying-life","category-everyday-schooling","category-living-in-their-world","category-mozambique","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}