I have just had an interesting exchange with my cockerel.
All is quiet here and the sun is shining.
Mr cockerel comes trotting up to me (they are not hand tame or anything). I swear he had a worried look on his face. What was he trying to tell me? No food? No water? Checked both and found plentiful supply.
Check nesting boxes. Three hens. Where are the other four?........ mmmmmm - where ARE the other four???...... and my good Marans to boot.
Look in all the usual places. Mr Cockerel is trotting along beside me. It's as if he knows that I am looking for them too now. He gives a few cockadoodles. No response. I am steeling myself for pools of feathers and already scolding my OH 'cos I'll bet he didn't count them in last night
Eventually I find them under the back hedge.
Mr Cockerel comes round the corner of the house and sees them. Happy reunions all round.
Much clucking and chooking
I am amazed. How did Mr cockerel get me to help look for his hens? How did he communicate that to me?.... or am I just reading too much into it?
Anybody else had similar experiences?