We have had chickens for a year and a half now. We started with 7, Twinkle, Sprinkle, MaMa Bear, Cookie Dough, Penelope, Midnight and Midget, then Midget got stepped on and died and we replaced her with Sylvia. Then during the winter a bobcat came and took care of Penelope, Twinkle and Sprinkle. This spring we got 4 more. Mona, Ruby, Ellie, and Flo. Ellie died of heat in the summer, Mona died of starvation we think because none of the other chickens would let her eat (that or she couldn't see her food with her awesome mo-hawk hair), and Flo turned out to be Fred and was a rooster who crowed all the time. Our painter ended up taking him home. So we ended up with 4 good chickens. We got 3-4 eggs a day. Light blue, brown and light brown. Great girls. Too bad no one ever wanted to take care of them and you know who ended up doing all the work!!! Well, we knew we had to get rid of them before moving to China, and no better time to do it then when it is nice and warm out still, and not snowing... that was the worst last winter... So here they are, all boxed up, ready to go to their new home in the country to free range with 5 other happy chickens. They will love it!! Poor Peter had a hard time letting go. He has such a tender heart sometimes.
Bye Bye girls! It's been fun!
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