Rain

Last night as I was driving home in the dark, the train lights began signaling an upcoming train, so I was the first in line to watch the show. Since the gasoline in my tank was low, I shut off my car to wait. I could feel and hear the rumbling of the train as it progressed in front of me. Almost as soon as the train started across the road, the rain started up again. The raindrops hit the passenger side of my car and sent ribbons of rain across the windshield as the wind was driving the raindrops sideways. The intensity of the rain on the roof picked up as the train rumbled through the intersection. The combination of the two sounds and the vibration of the road created a wonderful rhythm of machinery and nature in concert together. While rain is not my favorite weather condition, this experience helped me appreciate the value of rain. I hope you find time to enjoy the sound of rain in your next encounter.

Chickens

Please let this serve as an introduction to our chickens. The Wyandotte in the front (black and white) is Alice. The other two Wyandotte's are also named Alice - but they are not in this photo. They are fearless. As soon as the door is open in the morning, they are outside - rain, snow, cold, hot - it doesn't matter.

The black chickens are named "Pip." They are the background cluckers to our light colored Turken named Gladys (you remember Gladys Knight and the Pips?") Gladys is way in the back of this photo. Turkens do not have neck feathers - so look for the red neck in the back.

The dark red chickens are called "Penny." Sometimes we also call the buff colored hens "Penny" as well. And then there's Ethel, the yellow chicken in the back of the picture next to the building. Ethel came to us last year with very few tail feathers and she still doesn't have many. We think she is an egg laying machine though.



Rocky is one of our three roosters. He is a Barred Rock breed. We took this picture of him last summer. Right now he is coming out of a winter molt so he doesn't look this good. Rocky and Sly were the two roosters that survived the dog attack last summer. They have a pretty good chance of surviving the butchering knife because they're survivers - get it? - Rocky and Sly? Sly's comb got frozen this winter and all of the tips broke off. He looks like he has a mohawk right now - so his picture (below) is also from last summer. We have one other rooster who is a Wyandotte. His name is Chester.


Today is moving preparation day. Currently we have 56 chickens - 53 hens and 3 roosters. Everyone will be moving to the back building so we can get the hexagon house ready for the baby chicks who will be arriving on Monday, 4/21, via the U.S. Postal Service. Now there's a story you won't want to miss....




Hope you enjoyed meeting our chickens. Come back soon y'all.