Bird Watching
My kid has a friend named Autumn. That's perfectly precious, but Autumn has a brother named Odin. Autumn and Odin have 4 other siblings, including Indigo. I love this family.
ANYWAY. That is NOT the subject of this post. The subject of this post is that one of Odin's classmates is moving rather suddenly, and they're having to give up their chickens. I told Odin's mother we'd at least foster the chickens and find new homes for them. I didn't hear and didn't hear, then got a call from the guy. I tried calling him back, and again, nothing for days.
Turned out, he was moving his family back to SoCal in stages and so just wasn't home (where I'd been calling) for days at a time. Finally, today, we went out to the house after he and his family had left. It was weird to go to some strange person's house after dark and carry their livestock out, putting them under a tarp in the back of the truck.
It's cold here, and windy. I kept admonishing the Pirate to drive more slowly, worried that the cold wind under the tarp would stress the chickens out and kill some of them. Luckily, they all made it here just fine. Peaches and the Pirate unloaded the new chickens while I put the Badb to bed. Chewbeet had to let the new roosters know that he is The Man.
One of the new chickens is a cochin (they have mukluks), and a couple are bantams of different breeds. There are some araucanas, and some that are a dark auburn and black that I'll have to look up. From what we found in the henhouse, some are white egg layers.
Sadly, we don't have enough room to keep them all. We can keep 20, but the rest HAVE to go. If you know of anyone who's interested, by all means, email!
ANYWAY. That is NOT the subject of this post. The subject of this post is that one of Odin's classmates is moving rather suddenly, and they're having to give up their chickens. I told Odin's mother we'd at least foster the chickens and find new homes for them. I didn't hear and didn't hear, then got a call from the guy. I tried calling him back, and again, nothing for days.
Turned out, he was moving his family back to SoCal in stages and so just wasn't home (where I'd been calling) for days at a time. Finally, today, we went out to the house after he and his family had left. It was weird to go to some strange person's house after dark and carry their livestock out, putting them under a tarp in the back of the truck.
It's cold here, and windy. I kept admonishing the Pirate to drive more slowly, worried that the cold wind under the tarp would stress the chickens out and kill some of them. Luckily, they all made it here just fine. Peaches and the Pirate unloaded the new chickens while I put the Badb to bed. Chewbeet had to let the new roosters know that he is The Man.
One of the new chickens is a cochin (they have mukluks), and a couple are bantams of different breeds. There are some araucanas, and some that are a dark auburn and black that I'll have to look up. From what we found in the henhouse, some are white egg layers.
Sadly, we don't have enough room to keep them all. We can keep 20, but the rest HAVE to go. If you know of anyone who's interested, by all means, email!
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