The Chick's Big Move

For All Those Chicken Owners...

I thought I'd tell you, in case you're interested, about this contest that Purina Mills is hosting, called "America's Fanciest & Funniest Chicken Photo Contest".

I got a postcard for it that says "Be a part of America's fanciest and funniest poultry photo conest by sending in your best shot of your fanciest bird struttin' his stuff or your funkiest chicken doin' his thing. Entries will be judged by employees of Purina Mills, LLC and will be lookin gfor the following criteria: Originality, overall artistic compesition, use of color, and photo quality. Enter at www.betteranimals.com/fanciestandfunniest . Two categories to win in: Fanciest Bird. Funniest bird. Limit 4 entries per household. Deadline is May 31, 2009. For complete rules see www.SunFreshRecipe.com

They show examples as being chickens with dresses on and stuff...soo I thought I'd tell you, in case any of you out there have dressed up your birds ;-). Maybe I will, Idk... :)

oh, and 10 people in each category will win the Grand Prize, 12 free bags of SunFresh Recipe Poultry feed and 1st place winners (20 in each category) will get a SunFresh Recipe apron...soooo yeah....

It's COLLLDDDDD out!

Helloooo!
Quick post...

It was said all weekend that it would get down below zero this week...and it did! Yesterday I had to drag an extension cord all the way to the coop from the garage to hook up the heat lamp. And switch out the bulb. But, voila, here it is! It's in the video below ;-).

The barn cats are surviving fine...they sleep together and are warm. I brought them a heated pillow this morning, but that's all.


Stay warm, everyone!

Bibbi & Survivor

Hello again!
Sorry it's been so long.

Last week I asked if you guys though Survivor would be lonely without friends.
And we felt, as you said, that she would be lonely.

So we went to the family's house who has our chickens presently.

And we got Bibbi back.
We are insane, I know--give 'em away, get one back.
But I'd like to say that, though they will be slaughtered, our chickens seem very very happy at their new home. They now have (*gasp*) their own rooster! A VERY pretty, golden rooster, which loves our chickens. We spoke with the wife of the man who picked up the birds, and she seemed very nice--they have 25 of their own (VERY beautiful) birds and she was kind and I believe our chickens won't suffer when they're killed, so I'm happy, I guess.
Anyway.
Bibbi was quiet on the ride home. She sat in a cat cage. We brought her up to the coop with Survivor in it, and I opened the "human" door of the coop, and then opened Bibbi's cage. She didn't come out at first, and then suddenly she came running out and she seemed to recognize the coop, and she jumped in and started eating food. Survivor looked like she was in shock, she was so surprised, but she was clucking, and she came off the roost and went and looked at Bibbi. Then she drank water. RIGHT away, she drank. Which makes us think that maybe she was too afraid to come off the roost to drink and eat before.

She and Bibbi seem very happy now. Bibbi used to be one of the quietest hens in the coop, but she's now the "leader" of her and Survivor--she comes right to the door and she's always just -there-....

She's also laying eggs! Only one every other day, but it's still nice! :)

So our two chickies are happy.

The ladies. lol

Over and up,

Tour of the Chicken Coop-Finally