tishie11 wrote:What was actually happening there??
The pic is part of a (much) longer video clip. In the video Flap has her head down eating with the chicks, then up comes her head with this chick attached to her wattle. Chicks flies a pretty good parabola and ends up splat on the ground wings splayed, then gets up and goes back to eating.
I was taking the video to record how relaxed these chicks are -- these are the chicks that one of my wildest pullets tried to hatch out in the shelterbelt and then later ate one during hatching. I was expecting them to still be pretty neurotic, even with my calmest broody (Flap) raising them, but nurture seems to be winning big time with them.
One of almost everything, a veritable rainbow of chickens. And Project Motzle.