Monday, June 28, 2010

Smart Chick


This is our favorite chicken.

I realize that we have a lot of very cuddly animals on the farm and that chickens are not really...cuddly, so it's hard to become attached to a chicken.  I also realize that there is a certain danger in becoming emotionally attached to a potential food source.  However, this chicken is really the best one. 



Chickens learn by imitating other chickens.  But when you buy baby chicks, they have no one smarter than themselves to imitate.  The result of that is, if you have one semi-retarded chick picking at a 2X4 hoping it will magically become food, then you get sixteen others doing the same thing. 

This chicken, however, figured out the whole scratching the ground for food bit rather quickly, and then scurried off so no one could copy her and eat all the food.  She has also been patrolling the fenceline religiously.  Whether it's for the spiders that crawl up the fence or she's just looking for a way to breach the perimeter, we don't know. 
The problem is that we have no idea whether it's a he or a she.  So we don't know what to name her/him/it.  Adam has assumed girl and started calling her HennyPenny.  But we're open to naming suggestions.


Monday, June 21, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Bushyakked

I'm really starting to feel bad for the lilac bush.



Sunday, June 13, 2010

Chicken Run

Yesterday the new chicken enlosure was put up, allowing the chickens to go outside for the first time.
The chickens had other ideas.

Notice the distinct lack of outside chickens.

The fact that Thora was lurking patiently next to the pen may have had something to do with it. 


This one was only outside because he got shoved out the door by his "friends." I can't believe how big they've gotten in a month.