Now that Seven the Turkey chick is dead, Labubu the Silky Chick is my buddy. He (I'm guessing after hatching in an incubator set to the hotter turkey temperatures..) has stopped hiding under the rose bush (good bloody exercize reachind down and around there to fish him out) and taken to walking up to the door when I'm around. The problem is when I have to run out before the birds start getting onto their roosting bars or their brooding boxes for the night.. One night I couldn't find LaBubu and had to go to sleep hoping he was in with some hens in a brooding box somewhere. Might have been: didn't see him until everyone else was out.. But last night I got back and think I can hear chirping while just in the doorway. I look around under benches and between boxes and barrels and walls but can't see any birds. I shut all he other cages and boxes up for the night and till sort of hear chirping so I widen my search.. LaBubu was up on a wall beside the door wondering what kind of moron he had the bad luck to fall in with. He is not alone in such wonderment.. Well, now I know to look up too. The last time I found him after bed time he was in the corner of an extra, open brooding box, I didn't think he was capable of climbing so high. I wonder how smoothly that went, with Silkies it's easy to imagine a number of goofy fails before somethig like this works out..

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LaBuBu the Silky chick feeding alone now that same-day hatch-made Seven the Turkey is gone..

But now I'm noticing how different, interesting LaBuBu is. The egg may have come from a different farmer's market, the one with the Miyazaki Jidori eggs. I think after the Turkey eggs went into the incubater I placed in a coupe Jidori eggs along with the same place's Silky eggs... Since Turkey's require a higher temperature and hatch rates increase for roosters at higher temperatures LaBuBu is probably a rooster.

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LaBuBu the Silky after Seven the Turkey's death. LaBuBu seems to hide under the rose bush a lot more, before it seemed like Seven and LaBuBu spent more time by the house, under the eaves, in narrow places between the wall and various sorts of boxes and things.. Today was rainy and cold.. I hope LaBuBu is dry and warm enough. I was tempted to leave the bird in the heat lamp box but it seemed too boring.. Especially after I forgot to put the bird outside yesterday morning.. LaBuBu runs over to the feed boxes by the dog too,, But hopefully not like Seven when I'm not there and not as far into the dog's reach.. Maybe it will be ok now. Maron gets as far away from the birds as she can when the gather around the feed cans as I ready their meal.. Hopefully that urge to keep away from the birds remains when I'm not there!!!

This bird might not have enough toes to get official Silky recognition.. I read something about a toe-count standard, maybe on Wikipedia..
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LaBuBu the Silky, maybe looking a little shocked after same-hatch-day and brood-box-companion Seven the Turkey was killed by Maron the Shiba..I should have left work earlier, the body was still warm when I got back...I have photos of Maron cowering behind a rock, she knew it was wrong and started hiding before I noticed the dead bird on the cement. Bright shiny social eyes one moment and folded feathered meat the next. If it was still an Old Testament Moses kind of world it would make sense to have an Alannis Morissete party this weekend "I want to kill the killer [I want to eat the eater]" But I guess it makes more sense to re-organize the situation so the dog can't eat the chicks: Time to Focus and Attend, think about fencing, or big feeders out in the yard so the birds don't congregate around the feed cans near the dog when I'm not around and they get hungry.. Maybe moving the feed cans somewhere else protected? The bigger birds sometimes forage among the weeds around Maron's place but she ignores the bigger birds, for the most part, and they are difficult enough to kill that they can get away I guess. Another confession, I'm not even sure how many birds are there, it's alway around 20 but I could probably lose one a day for 2 or 3 days before noticing the brooding bars are less crowded..

A vague dream is do have a attractively fenced (with bamboo?) core with a sort of dog run fenced in to surround it. With dogs free to roam around the birds' place there shouldn't be any losses to weasels or cats. Unlike what I've heard about other dogs, Maron goes after snakes too. If I can get competent at yanking a lot of invasive species fish from the nearest river it wouldn't be so environmentally burdensome to feed another dog. Eventually I'll have to get my act together about getting deer and wild boar from forests, once the wolves a killed off people have to do everything. Not Good.
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