Nugget success!

[gunhilda]

We have four nuggets who are being mothered by a very protective Harriet!  Harriet is very attentive, and when a nugget strays too far from her, she clucks the little chick back to her. She gets particularly alarmed when one strays out of her immediate line of vision, and she cranes her neck to keep an eye on it. Apparently, that mothering instinct

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[rhiannonredwulf]

Yea! I am so glad that Harriet is making the adjustment.

[gunhilda]

Yeah, she's doing great. It is very amusing watching the little nuggets hop all over her. She almost purrs with pleasure.

[rhiannonredwulf]

You are such good people.

My first thought was-- cranky hen who is not laying and keeping the other hens from laying-- Sunday dinner!

Well, and how clever to get chicks of some breed that you would want. :-)

[gunhilda]

I suspect that none of our hens will wind up as our dinners. Hawk dinners, yes...

[rhiannonredwulf]

Well, it is problematic to eat animals that you've given a name to. Typically the steers we ate when I was a child were referred to as, that white faced angus or some such.

[gunhilda]

That makes sense.