My... FULL... Loft

[ZigZagMarquis]

Well... last night's routine pretty much went as prescribed.

This morning, I got up, put their feed out for about 20 to 30 minutes, took it up and let them digest for an hour or so. Then, when the sun had come up some more, I scraped and swept up the loft & perches. Then I got the hose and buckett and scrub brush out and gave the place a good cleaning.

When I got done with that, I put their bath pan out with some bath salts. So far two have taken a really good bath while the others have pretty much just just dipped thier feet in and then gotten out... oooh, wait, now Mr Blue Check and Ms. Red Check are in the soaking...

[ZigZagMarquis]

Well, bath time is over and theirs lots of wing flapping, puffin' up and preening going on. The sun is starting to hit the back porch / loft too... so let the sunbathing commence!

Anyway, time for me to go take a shower too and then get some breakfast before I have to go to work. I was supposed to have the day off, but no joy.

[ZigZagMarquis]

*bump*

Well... I didn't think this warrented a new thread, so I figured I'd put it here.

As many of you know, I started out with 6 birds I got from Foy's; I got them the last week of Sept. I added 3 birds from an auction I won on www.pigeons4sale.com. These birds arrived last week on Thursday, Oct 14. One of the 3 new birds is a Blue Check Hen; she's banded 2002 and looks older then the other 2, but the seller said that she is really a 2004 hatch, he just used an old band... the other 2 new ones are RC squeakers. Anyway, the BC "Hen" is... well... pardon me, but she's kinda "Bitchy". Wants to be on the high perch and will fight to be there, but thus far has always lost out. I've become used to the evening "fights" between them for space on the high perchs... its really not that bad a fight, that's just how I'm describing it, mostly just cooing and a bit of pecking and wing slaps, nothing serious... except for this BC Hen.

I'm wondering a couple of things... I wonder if she's really a Hen and not a cock? Also, I wonder if I need more perches up high or if I should give it a few more days, weeks?, and see if they work it out?