I've been strangely absent for a few days. I told Misha why, but the truth is our chickies were outgrowing their rabbit cage. We desperately needed to build them something else that was larger until their main coup outside was finished. It's perhaps going to take a while since Matt has decided to make it something special. I think hes getting as attached to the chickens as I am. Anyhow, it was a group effort. Matt constructed, and I painted. I put the wire on the sides and he put the top wire on. What do you think?




Oh, and I added a candid shot of my little ones that aren't ready to go in with the bigger chickies. We now have 6 Rhode Island Reds (one's a Rooster cause suspitiously my naked butted little sweetie just grew red combs - still no feathers on his rump though). I might call him Giovanni. And the rest of the hens are doing well.



Then we have four Americanas. They are pretty cool because they lay blue, green, and sometimes pink eggs. On top of that we have two Australorps from Australia that are black hens with iridescent bluish green feathers. The two Australorps are in with the Americanas who have been treating them nicely even though there's more than a week in age difference atm.



So the good news is this. Since we were building all weekend, I got all my outdoor stuff done for the pre-Misha visit... furniture is out, flowers weeded, lawn in tip top shape... even though I have to work sunday ( yea for an entire day of full OT!!! ) I'm still going to have nothing but time to finally post up all the stuff I've gotten done for Mizahar. In fact, right now I'm out at the picnic table at the end of my driveway facing the pasture under an old evergreen plugging away at the lap top. It feels great to be out here in this kind of weather away from the TV, Phone, Radio, and everything that distracts me from typing all this stuff in.