Ari No Spoons Jackson<p>Welcoming Cinnamon Sugar back home today. 🥰🐓</p><p>She is one of the babies that my youngest hen hatched from "borrowed"* eggs last year. </p><p>She's been up at the farm since early August 2024. Since the farmer doesn't want to keep her because she doesn't prefer breeding hens with her feather colors, we got her back! </p><p>She is another light blue egg layer. Can't wait to integrate her into the flock in a couple of weeks. Right now she's in isolation, and I'm planning to work with her on taming her down a little bit. She's very wild. </p><p>She got her primaries clipped today and only screamed a little bit bc we were inside and the cat was curious about her. She screamed a lot at my dogs when we were outside. Poor thing. </p><p>Chickens are very unwelcoming to new flock members. I'm not sure her adopted mom will remember her? But we'll just take it day by day at this point. I'll make sure that everyone's well before I move her containment into the main run. It's a process!</p><p>* I say "borrowed" because we don't have a rooster, so no fertile eggs. We hatch out a dozen or more hatching eggs from my farmer friend's flock every year, depending on how many of my girls go broody. Then, most of those chickens go back to the farmer or they go to people who want chicks.</p><p>I'm already starting to encourage my girls to consider sitting. I put wooden eggs in the nest box last week and somebody has been moving them around! So, signs are good that I will have somebody who wants to sit fairly soon. Demand for chicks is really high this year.</p><p>I know, I should've named her Nicole. </p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseChook</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfTheFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChickensOfTheFediverse</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChickensOfMastodon</span></a></p>