SugarPlum Meets the Chicks

or
A Giant in the Chick Nursery


Just tossed that one in for kicks.
Son4 was adjusting fresh floor cover.

Plum and Pullets...

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.  ~Psalm 119:160

Chick Chick Chick

The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.  ~Psalm 126:3

New Whimsy Piece

Being all MarthaNot and everything, I'm sure a new chick nursery nestled near the woodstove is a perfect living room whimsy piece.  Don't argue with me, Mrs. Piecrust.  A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, and this ain't Golf Hill.  It's not even St. Louis Ave., where a duck was once in residence.


Day-old chicks en route to our house: 5 black australorps, 5 black stars, 5 California whites, 5 white leghorns, and 5 Rhode Island Reds.

Eggs, not beauty.  Needs eggs.  Big and lots.  Amen.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. ~II Corinthians 5:17

Roosting Renegades

Two hens have long lived with the CowNots, and one or both have given us new chickens.  Wild chickens.  They wander about in the woods and help themselves to cownot chow.  We really must lure them over this way, for they're old enough now to be laying, which may be occurring in the woods — snacks for every coon, possum, and 'nake in our corner of the county.

 

Last night Son4 discovered where these wild chickens overnight.

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How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. ~Psalm 139:17, 18

Seven ChickenNots

The first three were taken from the living room, through glass and screen, and the final two are distance crops, so pardon the fuzz overlaid upon these feathery visitors.

The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.  ~Proverbs 15:33

What's for Dinner?

Oh calm down.
We bought 'em at the grocery store.
I just thought they looked like they needed names.

Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.  ~Psalm 21:13

Clown Egg

We don't know which lady delivered this gift, the little jokester.

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.  ~Proverbs 22:4

CowNot Hen

This little Ameracauna-Rhodie mix hen lives with Murdock and the CowNots.


A nice hen lives with them.  This hen is not nice.  She's mean as a snake.  We learned the hard way not to take all the girls' eggs, because they'll find a new place to lay, and it'll take us days to find their stash.  So we leave "salt" in the nest: 3 eggs with indelible X's on them.  X = Ucky old egg - Do Not Eat.


Poor Son4.  He has to fight the little spitfire every day for the eggs.  She bites.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.  ~Galatians 5:13-15