Kirstin, holding Squeaker and Angela, just before tucking them in for the night.We did receive another gift chicken, but not from the source we'd expected. A little girl Bethany befriended at the Bible Training School gave her a very young hen. It's name is Squeaker, because it is so young, it still sort of "cheeps" instead of "clucks."
The first two chickens, Gorgeous and Handsome, have now bonded, and they won't let the other two into the chicken coop (which, by the way, is really a dog house). So far, the other two chickens are coming into the house each night, to sleep in a cardboard box in Boo's bathroom. It's actually not a big problem, as apparently handling the chickens like this every day will make them easier to deal with in the future.
If we don't put them in the boxes, they roost in the trees in the backyard. That would be okay, except that they would come down into the yard at dawn, and we don't trust the dogs not to bother them. We also don't want to get up at dawn to bring in the dogs!
The current animal count is 2 dogs, 1 cat, 4 chickens, 1 parrot, and 1 bull.
2 comments:
Wow, you can almost sing "Old Mac Donald had a Farm"!
Hello Sowers!
Whatever happened to the small yellow songbird that Kirsten nursed back to health? Just wondering...
and praying for all of you!
Love Beth
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