When cock and the hen put themselves away I turned around and couldn't find the babies. The little ratbags had put themselves in through the sputnik and were in the loft! I left them there for a while, the others didn't seem too worried but I put them back in the box in case a cock has a go at them.
I'll let them stay in there tomorrow and see how they go.
This is quite extraordinary.
The Pitbull cock, Babydot, was born on May 15th last year. He's a late bred.
His son Frightening was born on the 1st of March this year. He's a late bred.
This pair were born in July so they are very very late bred.
The Babydot is 15 months old and is a grandfather already. He looks like an old bird, he's just massive. Not big, just a ball of muscle. There seems to be a genetic thing there. They are very very early maturing. He's paired up to a daughter of the Billiondollarbaby and the grizzle Thone' cock. Reggie the grizzle had one race last year and was on the board with the winner so she went well.
I'm quite excited about it.
