Posted in urban chickens on Oct 6th, 2006
Today we woke up to rain. I’m working from home today as I have a 11:30 am doctor appointment. Last night the little girls finally seemed to figure out the idea of the roost bar. I had the top of the roost box open as I was looking to see if Agnes had laid an […]
Posted in urban chickens on Oct 5th, 2006
So we’ve had no more eggs from Agnes so far. I’m keeping my eye on her, but she may just be pissed about the little hellions. Enough to stop laying for a while. It’s been colder the last few nights so I got M to fashion me a door of sorts out of a leftover […]
Posted in urban chickens on Oct 3rd, 2006
We haven’t really had chaos mixing the two ages, but a lot of uncertainty on my part about it. But tonight after work I gave them a box of dirt to play in and they managed to do it with a minimum of squabbling. Aggie still occassionally takes a peck at one of the little […]
Posted in urban chickens on Oct 2nd, 2006
These are the little girls, Mary, Margaret and Prudence. We’ve gone with a mid-century Catholic nun naming theme. Seemed appropriate since we started with Agnes. We’re calling them all Aggie, Maggie, Mary and Pru for short. I picked up these three little hellions from a woman named Irene and her husband in Marysville. They must […]
