Fight....fight...fight...

Things are certainly hotting up in the broody cage! There is lots of flapping and fighting going on! The cage is tall so I have installed a perch and some bits of branches - to give them a bit more space and for them to practise their roosting.

Nancy was the first to flap up (no surprise!) with the others watching closely. Now they are all doing it! Tail feathers are really beginning to show on all of them apart from Mertyl who still looks remarkably like a penguin!

The guy at the hatchery said that Mertly was a white Orpington chick but Cockerdoodle Mark thought she might be blue and I have to say the feathers that she has got are not pure white some are a definite grey - so I think Mark might be right again.

Pearl looks brilliant at the moment - she is a combination of chick fluff and really beautiful mottled feathers that stick out all over the place! She is like a walking feather duster!