Today (9th March) I bought a new chicken from Victoria Market. au$25 - she was down from au$30 I was told by the gentlemen. Either that or he decided to lower the price after he saw my expression at the au$30.
Her name is Sparkles and she's a scrawny little golden feathered girl with black splotches. She caused some excitement as soon as I let her out into the back yard by jumping up onto the back door and then the garage roof. She wasn't all to blame; white chicken started bullying her.
So after we caught her, I clipped her wings. But obviously I didn't clip it short enough because shortly after that she jumped onto the fence and onto the neighbour's hills hoist. So her wings got clipped shorter.
Luckily this week is a three day weekend on account of Monday being Labour Day public holiday so I can keep an eye on them. I've decided to partition off the back yard so that Sparkles is out the back and white chicken will have the area along the side of the house - this also allows her to come into the front yard by walking along the brick fence.
I also had to partition off their house with chicken wire- Sparkles has the nesting box while white chicken has the more bigger space.
So far white chicken has been most unappreciative by having very loud rants. And very often. She doesn't like my explanation that Sparkles is there to be her companion.
Introducing a hen to a new hen isn't the easiest thing but we'll get there. Afterall, it took time introducing white chicken to Flitter but in the end they became good friends.
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