Baby Bird, still growing!

 Here's another batch of pics of Baby Bird. We're fairly sure, now, that she is a "Modern Game Hen". She has beautiful plumage, and is by far the most loving bird of the flock. She now comes regularly to be held and rubbed, talks in a strange chatter to us, and has become quite fond of vanilla cream cookies :-) .  There have been two major milestones with her, recently... 1- she stopped nesting in the trees (requiring me to climb and get her each night) and goes into the coup at night. 2- she suddenly started socializing with the flock and now often sleeps with the rest of the flock in the big coup. Here she is at around 6 mos old...

Pepper, another large rooster...

 There were 6 babies hatched on June 25, 2022. One of the babies was a little blond chic, very spunky and curious. As it grew, Donna named it "Pepper". Pepper was very independent and didn't like being handled much. A few months in, and we realized that Pepper was a Rooster. So far, he's pretty well behaved, but we'll see how that goes. Here's a few pics of Pepper...