Thursday, December 25, 2008

Peeps & Big Beak

We now have a pair of chickens.

Peeps. She came to us as an egg in June. Jen built a homemade incubator and hatched her. She spent her first couple of weeks indoors in the incubator until she was ready to go outside. Then she was on our back porch. We'd let her out to roam around and pick bugs out of the plants (she like to eat the plants, too). We moved her a few weeks ago to our middle atrium outside the bathroom. She seemed like she needed a buddy.

Big-Beak O'Reilly. He came to us a few days ago, already several weeks old. He's a feisty bastard - a real twerp - and if you move too quickly towards him, he'll peck your stupid hand. He tries to crow, but it doesn't really work yet with his fledgling pipes. I'm sure he'll be waking us up soon.


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