After introducing the bantams to the hens yesterday, and observing a joust for the pecking order (“joust” is probably the wrong word; “rout” is closer to the mark), I crept out after dark last night to see how things were going. Three of the hens and two of the bantams were nestled on top of each other in the nesting box. Lucky, our hen at the bottom of the existing pecking order, and the two smallest bantams, who are at the bottom of the new pecking order, were perched next to each other in the main coop. All was calm.
This morning when I went out again, the stand-off had resumed. How strange that my newly married birds are happy to snuggle up after dark, but not during the day! There again, I suppose quite a lot of marriages work on that premise!!!
