The Last Brown Egg

Yesterday I dosed Henny Penny 

with antibiotics and Nutri Boost

and she seems to be slightly improved.  

The rattling in her breathing is gone and she is eating and drinking

all promising signs.

I also managed to get home and clean and sanitize the coop and accessories.

Earlier in the day
I let the chickens out.
They were out for maybe 15 minutes
and in that time, Blaze Starr disappeared.
My brother searched the fields for any signs of her or feathers or anthing
but there was nothing.
Could have been the fox,
though my brother and I are leaning towards alien abduction.
So I collected the last brown egg
until the pullets start laying
(Zombie lays white eggs)
So I got the coops all cleaned and all the stuff sanitized.
While I was at it, I kept an eye on how the 3 chicken in the coop were behaving.
All 3 got along.
Zombie didn't chase or peck anyone,
and all 3 were able to eat together at the same time.
Something that never happened with Blaze
who did nothing but terrorize the smaller chickens.
So, while I'm sad I'm a chicken down,
I'm not sad she's gone.
Seriously thinking her bullying behavior created the stressful environment
that allowed this illness to take hold.
 

Sunday Chickens

This past Sunday I left the girls out for a bit while I cleaned out the coop.

They headed straight over to the angel in the garden.

Guess they knew what day it was.

Chicken Strips

This is one of the new pullets.

She's a red sexlink or red star which is a hybrid between a Rhode Island Red Rooster

and either a White Rock, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Rhode Island White or Delaware hen.

They are prolific egg layers laying 300 eggs a year on average.

I immediately named her Blaze Starr.

For those who aren't in the know,

Blaze Starr was a famous stripper and Burlesque star in Baltimore in 1950's.

Later she sold handcrafted jewelry in a local mall

(I once owned a pair of her earrings)

and she owns and operates the Two O'Clock Club on the Block in Baltimore.

 So how did I go from red sexlink pullet to stripper?

Well sexlink-sex-stripper

Red Star- Blaze Starr

and they both have red "hair"

I think I'm probably the only person in the world

with a chicken named after a stripper.

(the chicken on the left is named Zombie, 

probably the only one to have a chicken named that too)

Wordless Wednesday

Someone is Eating the Sun!

As a kid, I enjoyed reading a book called Someone is Eating the Sun

It's about some farm animals that freak out because the sun is disappearing.

They think someone is eating it, only to learn at the end of the book that it's just a solar eclipse.

  It starts off with Hen who is picking at corn when she notices

 the sky getting darker and she takes off with a 

"flippity flap and a flutter".

Lately the chickens have been randomly taking off with 

a flippity flap and a flutter 

and I think about that book every time.  

Only my chickens are running for no apparent reason.