Chickens of Nepal

Back in June I went to Nepal, and of course was interested in the chickens I saw. It's interesting how chickens are chickens no matter where you are in the world. There were subtle differences, but it was probably more a fact that these chickens acted like normal ones, not like my spoiled hens that are picky about what they eat.

This chicken liked hanging out with our stuff

Teaching how to dust bath

A pretty awesome chicken coop. The roof says, "Guest House" hehe

He's tied up

April Chicken Happenings:

I'm glad I took a picture of my indigo last month, because I feel much more encouraged by their progress.

It seems like they're growing so slowly! But they are in a good spot, not too much sun, not too much water. (I killed a few, they're so fragile!)

Summer has suddenly hit! Takes its tole not only in us, but in our girls too. Susie mouth breather.

Luckily they rest where it's cool. Little drips from the hose make a cool, damp place on the east side of our house.

Poor Ku'u Ipo is broody. I shut the door to the coop so she can't go in and sit on her golf ball. I'm going to see if she snaps out of it quicker this way, instead of letting her sit on it to her heart's content.

Bea pecking bugs off the geraniums

Chicken fluff butts

                                  I'll introduce you to the plants which make up our dye garden:

pokeberry: pink & red color

Black Hollyhock: light blue color

Sunflower: yellow and green

Purple Basil: brown

Marjoram: yellow, gray, coppery brown

Marjoram protector (an old birdcage)

Things blooming in the yard: roses and orange blossoms!

St. Chickens' Day

Yay, we definitely spread our green around the yard today.

A shamrock and a "pot-o-gold" for the chickies

Susie just picks out the "good stuff" and flings out the rest

Then the other girls came. Ku'u Ipo likes looking at me.

I haven't really blogged about anything other than the chickens, but I'll mention these things too:

These are my sprouts to grow indigo for dyeing yarns!

Here's a cool ceramic head I made in college, I LOVED that class! So hard, but I always felt awesome afterward. Oh, that's an artichoke plant to the left.

Here's our other green we had this St. Patrick's Day.

Japanese pumpkin, they didn't sprout last year, but they did this time!

Acorn Squash

Moon & Stars Watermelon, looking sickly but we've had a little too much rain lately.

Blue pumpkin, that tasted so yummy last fall, I'm glad we have more than one plant this year!

And BUTTERNUT SQUASH TAKES OVER THE WORLD!

All those little guys in the ground!

I have a sprout on my raspberry bush! I didn't kill it! Yay! (Susie in the background)

Susie girl, she's so pretty.

We have to cover this plant with a bird cage so the chickens don't destroy it

Happy March 17th!

Peekin' Chicken

Susie comes and knocks (pecks) on the door! Drives my corgi crazy and she'll growl and shake since she's afraid of the chickens. She comes up to the door looking for a handout and, when the opportunity is there, comes inside to peck little crumbs off the kitchen floor.

Then everyone tries to come inside too.

Sulky Suzie

Suzie looks better than when I took these photos in December, but she was looking pretty bad for a while. Still no eggs. Ku'u Ipo is pulling the weight for all of them at the moment.