Some changes in the coop

One of the guinea fowl, the one that escaped the neighbors last summer, has started roosting in one of the rafters in the coop.  I was surprised that they didn't start doing this a long time ago.  Once in awhile another guinea or two will join her up there and I have to be careful at night because I'm worried they'll poop on me when I'm in the coop counting the birds or moving some of them to the roost.

Easter Egger

Easter Egger had her wings plucked by another bird.  I'm not sure who the bully was, but it got so bad that I pulled her into the crate in the mud room a week or two ago and took these pictures.  We sprayed Blue-Kot on her, which is a medicine for wounds on animals. 

You can see broken feathers and some missing

Now, a few weeks later, the blue is almost all gone and we saw new feather growth.  Yesterday, after I took these pictures, I let her out of the crate to join the flock.

She went straight to the first spot she could find and started digging for bugs.

So far she's done well with the flock so I think she'll be fine.