I'm still feeling guilty about the chicken slaying of last Friday, so Mike and I spent quite a bit of time this afternoon making amends to the girls. It was such a gorgeous day that Mike decided to start tackling our fall garden cleanup, and he cleaned out the snowpea, zucchini/green bean, lettuce, cucumber, and summer beet beds. All of the weeds and plants went into the wheelbarrow, and then were promptly dumped in the chicken yard. He also gave the girls several baby giant pumpkins that have no shot at maturing before the first frost, so it was a chicken feast out there today. To make it even better, earlier this morning Taperman gave the girls a bunch of grass clippings and rotten apples - for a chicken, I don't think life could get any better.
Soon, I hope we'll be seeing the first egg! The girls are looking more mature every day, so my fingers are crossed that we'll have an egg in the next 2-3 weeks.
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| Alice leading the charge to pile 1 |
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| Alice in action |
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| Aracauna |
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| Barred rock is the queen of the pile |
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| Chickens in heaven |
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| Taperman and one of his girls |
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| PTSD chicken (the girl that I rescued last week) exploring beet greens |
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| Rhode Island red |
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