Martin Luther King Day Jan 21, 2013.

3 eggs in the Am on this very cold morning. I always know because the frost on the windows hasn’t melted. Flock got more spinach and pieces of bread. They do enjoy the spinach and it’s really good for their feathers. They are very restless this morning, I think Clara is trying to “crow” certainly the most vocal out of the 5. Had a couple warmer days in the 40’s, odd for January.  I’ve let the flock free range on these days. Now they want to go go go. Spring fever has gotten to all of us!

Four eggs in AM today. Treat of old bread crusts and spinach

I have made martha my mascot of The Fallen Sky Cluckery, and created a pretty logo

Martha is my “Queen Bee”. Is she head hen? I don’t know. They seem to take turns.  But she knows her name and comes when called and just seems a lot more of a people hen than the rest.  She’s comical too, and is always ready for the photo op.

           Evolution is progress-fuzz to feathers

There are plenty of reasons not to keep chickens: maintenance, care, feeding, money, housing, city laws, ignorance.

Break the mold I say!

Chickens are fascinating  Watching them can take one to a trance like state, you wonder how they know what to eat, why to eat and all their quirky mannerisms. Their feathers are beautiful, and to me amazing. Nature has once again knocked it out of the park. You bring home these cute balls of fuzz, and within a month or 2 they have feathers!

It’s a very itchy process, but fun to watch as evolution takes over, and centuries of doing this over and over have perfected the speed of development for survival purposes, but also instincts passed down generation from generation, which completely baffles me. They came from an egg. Likely from a hatchery. No mother hen, no hens at all. Yet they have this ability to “just know what to do”