Now there are two

Yesterday morning, as I was doing my morning round of the chickens, I found Sunny huddled in a corner of the coop laying down. My attempts to coax her to eat and stand came to no avail. I quarantined her in a small cage in the garage in the hopes that the warmer environment would help her recover. Unfortunately when I came home from work later that day, I came home to discover that she didn't make it. We've taken her body to Davis for a necropsy to discover what she died of (and to make sure it's not something infectious). The other girls seem okay but now I find myself checking on them obsessively because I wonder if Sunny got sick over the last week but I didn't notice b/c I don't always check on them at night. Anyhow, we'll just have to wait for the results from the lab.

Sunny was at the bottom of the pecking order but the sweetest and nicest chicken as a result. She was the least afraid of us oddly enough and was the first to lay. She was a very good chicken and will be missed.

RIP sunny

Chickens hiding from storm

It's been a while since I've last posted but the girls are still alive and well. Buffy the big yellow one has stopped laying and is now officially a squatter.

The recent big storms scared them and drove them to hide in their house. I caught this picture on the webcam.

great chicken escape

I went out this morning to get the newspaper and heard this "bok bok bok" sound. I thought, "that's weird, it almost sounds like she's out here." I had let them out in the backyard that morning so I thought maybe they were just close to the fence. I walked over to the other front lawn and lo and behold, Sally was out there roaming outside the fence. I opened the gate again and led her back into the backyard.

Time to get this fence fixed.