Well, we’ve had a lot of excitement here in ChickenLand. Chicks have died, chickens have been sold… things are up and down. But, today things are good and stable. Here are a few cute pics of my Momma Chicken, Olestra, and her brood of (now) 8. 
Cute Chicken Pics!
July 22, 2009er update!
My garden is being eaten by an array of slugs, potato bugs and japanese beetles. Things are not good. So, in a world I *CAN* control, I’ve bought some banty chicks and sold several of my standards (still have 8 fair egg layers left… should be plenty).
Without further ado, baby chickens!!!
More Chicken Pics!
This has really turned into my chicken blog, but I do occassionally put things in about my garden… really… 
Today, I slaughtered Cleo because he figured out how to crow and wouldn’t stop. No more worries about animal control coming to get him. He’s on the menu this week. Mmmm… rack of Cleo…. Cleo and dumplings…
Ahem. New photos. Also, I’ve pretty much decided that Rodney the Roo is a girl. The neighbor kids love him/her and have decided to rename her Gloria. Rodney/Gloria is 12 weeks old and has very little comb, too little for a Plymouth Rock Roo… but look at these photos and see for youself.
Cleo Crowed Today!
Cleo, my super sexy black australorp roo (he’s that big black brute in the post below) became a man today… he crowed!
He was apparently so glad to see me that he had to crow… I went out to feed them and this strange noise came out of him. At first, I thought he was choking on a kazoo… then I realized it had to be a crow. So cute. He’s 13 weeks and already becoming a man. Way to go, Cleo.
BTW: Cleo was sold to me as a day-old female, but clearly they were wrong. His name used to be Cleopatra…
Update 2/2… photos from 6/20!
I just took these the other day… camera batteries died before I could upload them. The chocolate divas make an appearance in this batch.
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- Chocolate Divas at center, Rodney the Roo at left and Hazel at right
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- My Ameraucana girls: (front to back): Delilah, Lilith and Amelia
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- Another shot of the Chocolate Divas
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- Delilah hanging out by the new feeder
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- Cleo ducking into the bushes
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- Cleo at the feeder with Halley
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- Rodney (top right) and his girls (r-l): Ethel II, Abigail, Hazel
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- Another one of Cleo… check out that green sheen… he’s a green sheen machine…
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- Cleo and Delilah and Lilith
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- Cleo and Halley and Delilah
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- Cleo and Lilith’s tail and Halley’s tail
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- Delilah, the Alpha Hen
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- Lilith, the sister of the Alpha Hen… she gets no respect.
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- Cleo and Jellybean and chicken butts
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- Cleo… you go, sexy roo.
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- Jellybean… she’s a buff orphington, if you can believe that… everybody tells me she looks like a duck.
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- Abigail Poulet… largely unchanged from the last series of photos.
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- Cleo…
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- Cleo and Delilah consulting on how to best run the chicken yard
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- Cleo, eyeing something delicious…
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- Cleo and Halley
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- Rodney the Roo and one of his girls… probably Hazel.
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- Cleo, King of the Jungle
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- Lilith… she’s a pretty bird.
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- Delilah and Amelia… if I didn’t know it was unlikely, I’d think they were actually sisters.
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- Amelia
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- Chickens galore!!!
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- Cleo and Jellybean again
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- Cleo and Jellybean
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- Cleo and Mable
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- Top to Bottom: Rodney, Abigail, Lilith, Amelia (?)
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- Good start on a chicken dinner…
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- L-R: Jellybean, Amelia, Halley
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- Top-Bottom: Amelia, Cleo, Halley
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- Run, Cleo, RUN!
Much sought after updates! Part 1/2 — June 7, 2009!
Sad, but I’ve had these photos this long! Sheesh!
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- Loki and Eddie hanging with the chickens
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- Loki and Eddie hanging with the chickens again
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- Loki and Eddie trying to eat the chickens’ oyster shells
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- Amelia
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- Jellybean’s rear, Mable’s front, Cleo and Abigail (the poof)
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- Mable emerging from the bushes
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- Eddie and the chickens
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- Eddie and the chickens again… Delilah’s in the back giving him the eye.
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- Eddie and chickens
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- Eddie and Loki and chickens
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- Loki and Eddie and chickens
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- Loki in the chicken yard
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- Eddie in the chicken yard
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- Abigail, the Polish Crested… not good for much, but so cute!
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- Loki and chickens
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- Wicket and chickens
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- Wicket and chickens again
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- Really decent shot of Eddie. He’s hard to photograph, since he never holds still.
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- Ethel II, the Welsummer Pullet
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- Mable, the California White pullet… sweet girl, likes to fly.
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- Amelia, the Ameraucana pullet… first in flight, hence the name. :)
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- Just hanging loose on top of the covered part of the enclosure. L-R (Cleo the Australorp Roo, Halley the Barred Rock Pullet, Mable the California White Pullet)
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- Loki and Eddie and Wicket playing in the yard
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- Loki and Eddie and Wicket still playing in the yard.
Updates!! FINALLY!
Sorry, guys… heat kills and humid heat kills completely. Since the last update… well, a lot has happened. If I can manage to get my camera lens to de-fog this afternoon, I’ll take some photos and post them along with this story.
Sukiyaki, the Silver Phoenix, is no more. She caused terror among my pullets and went to live as a house chicken with a nice older man in Buffalo. Hooray for her. Now he’s got the eggs.
Cleo has proven himself to be a rooster… but he’s not crowed and for that, I’m grateful. Not that I can’t have a roo, but I don’t care for noise. 
Today, Sat, June 20, 2009, we made a quick trip to Marshfield to pick him up some girlfriends. I now have one Australorp roo and 4 Australorp pullets… all about the same age. They should have a good time together.
It’s funny how much different they look from my other chickens. They’re not sick or anything, but they’ve not been outside much, I gathered. And you can really tell… my chickens look like they’re ready to be on the cover of News Chicken Week, the new chickens really don’t. They need love and grass.
We’ve named them Oreo, Pumpernickel and Olive. All black foods, since they will be the mothers of our chicken from next year on… fresh chicken, no steroids, treated humanely. YUM!
That’s about it. Will post photos when the humidity allows.
~Kristi
May 17th, 2009! I’ve got an egg!!
So, I kind of cheated, and ended up with a 1 year old silver phoenix hen that’s laying… but still… I’ve got an egg!!!! Also photos of my chickens sleeping in their hampster pile.
Addendum: That’s actually a tinted or “pink” egg. Couldn’t tell until I got it around white eggs… under closer inspection, I found it had a tiny crack (I imagine that’s why mom rejected it despite her rep for being broody), so I ended up bringing it inside and sticking it in the fridge.
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- My egg, in it’s makeshift nest. Nest annex in progress.
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- Apparently Silver Phoenix Chickens lay white eggs… who knew?
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- Silver Phoenix wondering why everyone else is in a hampster pile…
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- Younger chicks in their own hampster pile
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- Chicken Hampster Pile!
Weekend UPDATE! May 9 & 10, 2009
Lots and lots and lots of pics. Might take a while to load, but hey, if you’re here, you obviously don’t have anything better to do.
Update, May 5, 2009
Well, it’s still raining… and raining and raining and raining and raining. I spent the day in the greenhouse and only got about half the tomatoes transplanted. 
Here are some photos.
