Intern

Since my international readers are telling me I don't post enough- this is for you....Although I really don't have fabulous news. You guessed it, we lost "Iron Man".. really- I just lost him. My guess is the hawk, but who knows. Here one day, gone the next. We really had no room in the coop anyway, especially since my friend, Nancy Jane's hens are staying with us for the month. Maybe when the boarders are gone we will try to find some full sized Auracana Hens- no more of this chick rearing business.
On a brighter note, I have gotten myself an intern. Yes, she is an intern at work, but I may also use her to do chores around the coop as well. I have named her Darin and am working on training her now. She is a recent grad and has no other good options, so might as well not just learn marketing (or office grunt work) but also how to clean out a filthy chicken coop. Those are real life skills.

Don't count your chickens

Easy come, easy go.. little yellow hen was cruelly murdered by a neighbor's wiener dog. It was really tragic as she died in my hands. So now the little brown chick- "Iron Man" (my kid has been picking names again)- is lonely in her baby chick house (aka dog crate). I feel so bad as she keep peeping peeping, so now she has a temporary house pass and is running around our den. Since we really don't need 6 hens, I don't want to get a new one, but Iron Man needs company.. Maybe she will graduate to the big hen house tomorrow and just take her chances with the hawk/ cat.
Also... we found a new kind of egg in the coop! It seems that our bantam CooCoo has started laying- finally.. They are small tan eggs. I will take a pic soon. My kid ate the first of "his CooCoo"s egg once I told him there was no chance of it becoming a small chick.