Hello, everyone!
The chickens say that it's time to write of their achievements and I agree.
Now presenting:
We're hoping to conduct our own chicken contest here at Plain Old Farm. With
a few flocks in the neighborhood (one of which includes the chicken who won
the Prettiest Chicken contest last week), we have quite an assortment to
entice into the festivities. Perhaps we'll have an egg contest --
most colorful egg, strangest egg, largest, smallest. And for the
chicken contest, we might have prizes for biggest, smallest chicken --
basically the same categories as for eggs. Most beautiful,
grumbliest, sassiest, most nervous, and so on .....
Ah! Time to remove the just hard-cooked eggs from the pot, and plunge them
into ice-cold water -- six beautiful, nutritious eggs, laid today by our
beneficent hens! Now, I believe one is supposed to let fresh eggs
sit in the fridge for a week before hard-cooking them, so that the
shells don't stick to the whites, but who can resist the dazzling gold of the
fresh yolks. Anyway ...we're sure that the largest egg, from Snowneck (as she
said!), is a double yoker!
Bluestar: Her signature cluck is "peep, peep"
Yikes: She often moans "ohw, ohw, ohw" and Amri imitates her.
I've always wondered, do chickens have lips?
Hoobie
Well, if you count our very useful and somewhat sharp beaks as "lips"
then I suppose they could qualify but I think they are much too useful
to be lips. Yikes.
If you want to see pictures of our chickens, as well as back issues of
our newsletter (before it got its name, CHICKEN SCRATCHES) check out our
website: Plain Old Farm
There are just a few pics right now. More will come, because Amri has
pictures galore on her camera *right now*!!!
Chicken Scratches No. 2
September 28 to October 6, 2007
YIKES SAYS
I'm just not made for this chilly weather. It hardly matters for the "dinner
on legs" birds but I am a graceful and slender bird who is made for warm sun
seasons so I'm letting Snowneck write the rest.
Today I laid a double
yolker! Have you ever done that? Now I'm hungry. It's hard to be the
biggest chicken ever.
Chicken Mumblings From Jane:
Last week a Harvest Festival took place at the Farmer's Market. Alas, we had
now idea that there was a Prettiest Chicken contest. If we'd known, we
probably would have entered Snowneck in the competition. She certainly is
dramatic, with her snowy neck and pink eyeliner! She is by no means -
petite. (she is the biggest chicken ever - maybe). But she is majestic, and
grumbly, like a dowager queen.
CHICKEN CLUCKS
Snowneck: She has a deeper, more grumbly cluck and for a while during the
Small Feeder Era she had one that sounded like "nlongnlongnlong"
AND FINALLY, FROM ONE OF OUR READERS
Dear Yikes,
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
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