Personality

Our chickens have totally developed a personality and one in particular, Luna, is a total escape chicken.  She’s very crafty, cuddles up to you and clucks softly then the moment your back is turned, BACACKK! She’s making a run for it! 

I have to admit, she’s my favorite chicken. 


Also, chickens are brutal little cannibals.  Whenever I find an egg inside the coup (not the nest box) I smash it and they all come running like its Christmas morning to devour it.  They even eat the shell.  I think this is probably an evolutionary thing, predators are less likely to find a nest that doesn’t smell like decaying eggs so they tidy up whenever possible.

Halloween PSA

Just a reminder, even Darth Vader practices proper car safety!

Buckle up and be safe this holiday season!

Just clucky, thanks!

Well, the humans have been battling the DEMON FLU for the past week, luckily I'm recovering...just in time for my husband to get sick.

The chickens, however, are doing fantastic.  We now have two layers, one with pale brown eggs and one with dark brown speckled eggs.  I am so pleased at my wonderful little layers...now half the chickens are laying! 

Luna let me pet her today, she's so friendly.  Lately she's been following me when I go in to feed the rest of the chickens and today she just sat down and let me pet her feathers and scratch her little chicken neck.  Good thing I took care of all those exotic birds as a petsitter, now I know all the "spots" to make chickens happy!

We have Eggs!

I don't know which one did it, and she certainly didn't use the nest box, but we have an egg!  Whohoo!

In lieu of an actual post...

Not much to report right now, tomatoes are growing, chickens are clucking (but not laying), pumpkin has powdery mildew. I will note however that apparently our little chicken house was the talk of the Reedville baseball practice last week. Apparently we are "some house by Indian Hills actually has chickens right in their backyard."

So, anyway, here are some pictures from McMenanims Edgefield:

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

Our first "predator"

Well, have had our first "predator" yesterday.  It was a small cat who sat on top of the chicken coop and meowed plaintively I think he was saying "pllleasssee…plleeeaseee."  I took a video from my phone and will post it as soon as I can find the micro-sd card reader, which is…somewhere in the house.

We have chickens!

At long last we have chickens!

We put up the welcome sign:

Felix investigates the package

Meet our Araucana, Tonks:

Our Buff Orpington, Luna and our New Hampshire, Ginny:

And our Welsummer, Hermione

Right now they are all pullets but they should be laying soon!