My Tiny Flock
I was looking over my recent posts this morning and realized how remiss i have been in the wanna-be farming department. We do have things going on around here. I told you about my chicks a while back. Well, here they are about a week ago: When i realized my mistake, i grabbed my camera and went out to the chicken coop at 5:26 a.m., in the pitch black darkness and took pictures. Here are the chicks - or as many of them as i could get in the camera at one time. The blond ones (the buff orpingtons) are for us to keep. The others are for a friend. This is Arne (Arne means eagle in one of the Scandinavian languages, and it's just funny to name a chicken, "Eagle.") Pronounced Arnee. This picture is a little blurry, but even with the blur, i think you can see that he is a truly gorgeous boy. This is my broody hen. She's broody every time she sees an egg. In this picture, she's studiously brooding a golf ball, but it is very l...