chickens

we moved our chickens into the greenhouse a couple of weeks ago, after we harvested all the carrots and lettuces we had in there. we wanted them to be able to get some fresh greens at this time of year. aiyana is our chicken manager and expert echicken catcher. here she is in the process of bringing them into the greenhouse. the chickens love it in there, of course: protected, warm, and fresh greens available. the only problem was that we moved two flocks, which are normally in two separate coops, and as soon as they were free to mingle, they started to fight with each other. the two rosters foughts, and the hens fought too. soon enough though, they established new territories, each flock hanging to one corner of the greenhouse, and it was settled.

here's what the greenhouse looked like 10 days after the chicken had been in there. all that green matter was gone. they scratched the soil nice and loose, and fertilized it for us too. soon they'll be moved to new ground.

 here they are pecking through some compost i brought them

this is "Prince", one of our roosters. sena and aiyana are in charge of collecting eggs daily, and so they know the chickens really well, and give them names. Prince is quite a character. he would not let the other rooster approach any of the ladies from his coop when the two flocks were free to mix together.

 aiyana the animal lover

Midnight, our rodent patrol is being quite lazy at this time of year. i don't know how many rodents he's getting, but i think he could be getting more. i see the damage they're doing out there in the spinach, so i know there are lots of them. we'll have to stop pampering him so much i guess. but he did win us all over, so it's hard to be very strict with him.

we did get some snow last week, although i still feel like winter hasn't really come yet. it's been so warm, it's quite unsettling.

peace