We hadn't got the first egg. That would have started in August/September.
They had all been roosting in an open shed and I had just framed up the walls for my chicken house the day before. Dangit I was pissed.
Since then, one of my three toms died. He had a slight limp one day, a hard limp a couple days later, then wouldn't get up a couple days after that. The other boys and even the llamas were giving him heck, so we moved him so he could maybe recover. He fed and watered a little while staying in a sitting position but could not get up. We moved him around to keep him out of his own mess and clean him off, thinking that he'd recover. The injury was apparently internal because he died after a few days with no visible wounds. I wasn't home when he died, so no autopsy was done.
Anyway.....the two remaining toms are always excited to be fed. They are quite aggressive about it, so my wife is scared of them. They can definitely draw a little blood when going for a finger.
