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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Fancy Chicken Update

I brought home 6 chickens today-3 chicks and 3 adults. I was worried how the adults would fair in their new habitat. By the way the chicks are fine-they are in my kitchen. My hubby built the greatest chicken coop with a ramp and lots of amenities. Unfortunately, I think my frou frou Silkie chickens are not the brightest. I opened the coop and put them in the bottom. I checked on them for the next few hours and they did not really move from where I initially put them. In theory, they can walk up a ramp to the top where they have lots of pine shavings and nesting boxes. The New Hamp/Silkie mix I named Black Betty started up the ramp as evening was approaching. She made it 3/4 of the way up and fell off due to lack of coordination. And that was the end of that. Later on, we all went out during the last bit of daylight and there she did it. Miss Prissy (my geriatric girl) went right up to bed. At that point Rose and Betty resorted to snuggling together downstairs. I could not take it and made Dave crawl in there and wrangle them and put them upstairs with Ms. Prissy. He did and now they are all warm. The chicks are happy and warm and getting used to cats staring at them. The chicks are all girls, I confirmed by a genetic test.

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