My Chickens and I.
Recently, I got another chicken from Arthur. Its a long story, but the picture you are about to see is a study in nutrition.
What happened was, Arthur made a deal with one of his tenants. Arthur had a building on one of his rental properties that made the perfect chicken house. It was about 16×20 feet, with a yard out the side that the chickens could run in. So Arthur purchased 100 chickens mail order, and this guy was going to keep them and share some of the profits of the eggs or the chickens themselves when they where grown. Arthur even sprang for the feed. Well, I went to check on his chickens the other day, and there where non around! the place was barren. the fence in the yard had a knocked down section, and there was not a chicken in sight. It looked like it had been that way for a couple weeks. Anyway, I went and reported this sad news to Arthur, and he contacted his tenant and asked what happened. The guys said,” Oh, they are around, they are ranging in the woods and around the house”. and he asked Arthur if he wanted him to bring a couple over. So a couple days later, a lone chicken shows up.
And that is how I adopted one more chicken
The Chicken on the right is the sister to the chicken on the left. they both came from the exact same brood. They where born on the same day.
Isn’t that interesting? The only difference is the chicken on the left is truly free-range, and the one on the right (Melinda’s Chicken) is well fed. Even their colors are different. Melinda’s chicken is a deeper gold. That said, the skinny chicken still seems healthy, and I sure she will catch up to her sister quick enough.
In other Chicken news, since we have a new chicken, I have to keep the new chicken in the coop to keep her from running away. This needs to last a couple weeks give or take. so, when I let the chickens out in the morning, I close the coop back up, so the new one does not run away.
Well, since then, around noon, when I go in the yard to walk the dogs, and check up on the chickens, the black one (Rockwell’s chicken) sees me and stands near me wherever I go and makes chicken noises. (“buuk bucUUUK”). She even leaves the other ones to stand near me. (Unusual).
I figured it out! She likes to lay around the middle of the day, and she wants back into the coop so she can lay her egg!
too funny.
