Added another layer of insulation to the chicken house. Now it looks even more like Ma and Pa Kettle have set up housekeeping in the yard. It looks tacky, but it does the trick. Mabel and Barbara do not seem bothered by the cold as much as I worry that they are. They go about their chicken business as if it were a balmy 70 degrees out there.
It has been sunny and Cal is continuing to work on the chicken yard next to the house. We are building them a larger area to hang out in for when we are gone for a few days, and frankly, so that our lawn has a chance to recover. Turns out chickens are death to your lawn with their pecking and scratching, so the lawn just off our patio is pretty much mud, and our wild strawberries around the big tree have dissappeared leaving a bald mound. Still, all that can be replaced and regrown, and meanwhile we have had the delight of having these girls, plus the eggs of course.
We got the girls o October 10th, 2012. That is only 3 months ago! Yet I feel as if we have had them forever, and in a good way. I woke up after Cal this morning and pulled back the curtains on the glass doors in the bedroom, and what do I see? Two pretty chickens preening, strutting and sashaying around the patio. As soon as they saw me they came running to the door. "There's Mommy, think she has some raisins?"
We love Mabel even of she does not lay eggs. She does not know she is kind of an anamoly. My friend Leslie recommended we find a rooster to make Mabel's acquaintence, as some times that is what chickens need to get the drift about laying eggs. Perhaps I will look for a friend who has chickens who has a rooster. We can't have them in the City.
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