soggy donkey herder on Nostr: Good morning from the #chickens, who continue to lead dramatic lives. We finished out ...
Good morning from the #chickens, who continue to lead dramatic lives.
We finished out this year’s clutch with three surviving teenagers: pullet Contra and cocklets Legs and Lance. (Cocklet Flasher was lost to his own fatal curiosity when he snuck into the paddock and the hawk got him in there. I gave the equines the “what the fuck, you just *stood* there” speech but it never helps. At least I didn’t lose Contra.)
Contra and Lance are out of Easter egger eggs (Easter eggerers?). Contra is still the smallest chicken, but she’s gonna pass bantam Beyoncé pretty soon, and she’s already got thicker leg bones than the Sicilians (my perfect, fine-boned ladies). She’s got a perfect head, with a small pouf on top and a full beard under her beak, and she’s black with just a bit of gold on her neck feathers.
Kiddo saved Bey last week! He heard a commotion and ran outside to see one of the Cooper’s hawks with Bey in their talons, trying to fly away with him! The bad bird dropped Bey, who was somehow totally unharmed and spent the rest of the day hiding in a holly bush.
We finished out this year’s clutch with three surviving teenagers: pullet Contra and cocklets Legs and Lance. (Cocklet Flasher was lost to his own fatal curiosity when he snuck into the paddock and the hawk got him in there. I gave the equines the “what the fuck, you just *stood* there” speech but it never helps. At least I didn’t lose Contra.)
Contra and Lance are out of Easter egger eggs (Easter eggerers?). Contra is still the smallest chicken, but she’s gonna pass bantam Beyoncé pretty soon, and she’s already got thicker leg bones than the Sicilians (my perfect, fine-boned ladies). She’s got a perfect head, with a small pouf on top and a full beard under her beak, and she’s black with just a bit of gold on her neck feathers.
Kiddo saved Bey last week! He heard a commotion and ran outside to see one of the Cooper’s hawks with Bey in their talons, trying to fly away with him! The bad bird dropped Bey, who was somehow totally unharmed and spent the rest of the day hiding in a holly bush.