Crowed, PEV delivery

Yesterday when I was opening up the chicken tractor for the baby chicks they were looking out at me through the glass block window that is on the side.  Danielle made her way to the front and all of a sudden I heard a weird noise that I had not heard out of them before.  I looked and realized it was Danielle making the noise and I am 90% sure the sound was her/him trying to crow, as in what roosters do, great…

When I told Cindy about the incident she wasn’t happy either but it really isn’t much of a surprise.  Since the very beginning Danielle was clearly the most aggressive bird of the six.  We commented from very early our concerns of she being a he.  As Danielle has grown her waddle is bigger than all the other chicks as well as her crown, more signs of the bird being mis-gendered.  It’s very frustrating as the chicks at Rural King were marked as pullets (hens), not a straight run which means males and females.  This is not a new thing for us as we have had at least three situations where we had birds that we were told were hens and turned out not to be. Evidently whatever method is used to determine a chicks gender at birth is far from foolproof.

So if Danielle does turn out to be a rooster I would imagine we once again will try to find a good place to rehome him to.  That is easier said than done.  We could try living with a rooster but I really don’t want to deal with the potential hassle.  The visions of my dad beating one to death that attacked my sister when I was a kid still floats through my mind.  I don’t want to have to be in for a fight every time we go into the chicken yard.

I dropped Sadie back off at Ali’s place yesterday morning after a trip to Rural King.  Elsa immediately made herself at home, running upstairs to say hi to Ali and then plopping herself down in the oversized chair.  When I told Elsa it was time to leave she was very unhappy about it, she just loves Sadie so much.  Sadie herself started to follow Elsa which made me sad as I told her I would see her again soon.  The two of them had so much fun while I was off.

Early yesterday afternoon I was trying to decide what sort of PEV ride I wanted to do on my last day off.  I had an EUC stand order come in recently.  I thought it would be fun to deliver the package to the post office via the speedy Dualtron.  It was a good time.  I learned from my last Dualtron ride and just used the chest mount for the GoPro.  Trying to film with one hand as I do on my other electric vehicles is just unsafe, the Dualtron really requires two hands on the handlebars at all times.  The ride went well and my speed topped out at 34 mph.  I wore full gear, just in case.

I hope this long two day work week hurries up and gets over with.