Those little magical baby eyes 😍
I get lots of help during the day 'working' too. The only easy bird is Huey. He likes to sit on his hanging perch in my office and just observe.
Yesterday was a rare stressful 16 hour day. By 8pm GreycieMae was hanging upside down off the side of my chair biting the back of my arms, my ribs, even socking me in the back of the head a couple times. Her says "Daddy, enough work! PLAYTIME!!!" Sorry baby girl, gotta pay the bills....
We have coyote woes here, too. All their natural habitat has been over-developed, so now they're scouring the neighborhoods, hoping to find a sustainable food source. It very sad, actually.
Chickens? Too many. I have about 30 at the barn and 30 in the backyard. The backyard flock is all Silkies as well as young birds that will eventually end up at the barn. I also have some really small ones in the aviary with Huey and GreycieMae. That situation was forced on me a few nights ago when a bobcat showed up and made off with about 10 chickens. I got two back from the neighbors yard across the road where he hauled them off to and they escaped. I bought a kennel to set up and put them in but I need to find time to get it together and move them out.