Chicken Reprieve

the President/Prime Minister/Imperial Poobah Ron of the empire has made a last minute reprieve for the hens destined for execution. He found 10 eggs in the stone wall. Sneaky dopes! And he ate them! I personally wouldn't have believing that there might be problems in such a thing but Sweet Patootie(P/PM/IPR) said - nah - he wanted a big omlette so yum yum. He said several of the eggs were from Ruby or Bea (the RIRs) and so a stay of execution has gone out. We will keep our three hens and one rooster at least until spring when we will get a new bunch of day olds. There.
So all you bleeding heart chicken lovers can relax a bit. We put a golf ball in one of the nest boxes and I found an egg in there today. Yay! Seems like the shrike that killed Deary got the rest of them silly with fright and even my daily exhortations to produce or die didn't make it through to their teeny tiny brain pans.

dear departed Deary and Ruby looking on last winter

when they were just chicks in the brooder - isn't Blondie funny? He was a rooster that went to live at another farm...he was very cute.

here is Mama Crow with Jackmo(our rooster) and Sissy Miss Prissy (our princess)