Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wings


Well. There. Can you see that wing?

Two days ago, I walked into the room where the chicks are living at night to find Mabel/Maynard on the floor, walking around in confusion.

Where's my food?
Where's my friends?

And so forth.

She'd flown up out of the box which is in a cage and then squeezed through the bars between the box and the cage and gotten out. That bird! This morning I threw a roach in the box (now reinforced by Mr. Moon to prevent escapage) and that same bird attacked and ate it with swift and lethal force. I have a feeling we're going to keep that chicken. He's obviously an advanced chicken and if she's a hen, will figure out how to eat more and thus, lay more eggs and if he's a rooster, will be smart and able enough to defend the flock.
Darwin wins again.

Anyway, I didn't really come here to talk about chickens. I'm working on what will probably be a series of posts but this morning's duties call me and I can't spend the time on the writing it deserves right now but will try to figure out the time as the day goes by.

Until then, because I am obsessed, I wanted to give you this picture and chicken update and tell you that it's a beautiful day here, I couldn't be much more content, and I'll give you more in a while.

My story is having to find its wings, I suppose you would say, and that takes a little time, for chickens and for me.

20 comments:

  1. Now THAT? Is one hell of a wing. Good job Maynard. (er Mabel)

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  2. I think you should name this chick Maynard no matter what sex it turns out to be...

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  3. Birds are known to be very intelligent creatures, but this Maynard character seems to be downright genius. Wonder if his/her mother ate plenty of DHA before she laid his egg? Or maybe DHA only increases brain power in human babies? What the hell do I know, my mother probably ate lots of xanax.

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  4. I might have know Maynard/Mabel would be the first to escape the cage. There is just something in his/her eyes...

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  5. Wow. Growing wings. Mad concept.

    Eating roaches... not so much. But then, rather that than have the roaches round the place, of course.

    Go MableMaynard!

    Mayblard.

    Nardble?

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  6. No, actually , I agree with aj.

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  7. They eat roaches? OKay, maybe I should rethink this "not getting chickens until the kids are potty trained" thing? I hate roaches but I love chickens.

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  8. All this trouble - what do potty trained kids have to do with chickens? I'm making myself giggle trying to figure it out.

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  9. I heard on NPR that it takes 8 weeks for chickens to become adolescent...? Can that be? It sure would explain a lot about why they are changing so quickly.

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  10. Steph- And those wings work.

    AJ- You may be right. I like the name Maynard.

    DTG- Want to maybe come sit with the house,chicks, and dogs this weekend? Maybe?

    Rachel- I believe he's just from an early-developing breed or something. But then again, perhaps he's just a chicken genius.

    Lady Lemon- I am not disagreeing.

    Ms. Jo- I swear, I think that my son should get a chicken to keep in his house, just to eat the roaches.
    But I'm not giving him Maynard.

    Ms. Trouble- Really. What's a few more creatures who poop around the house?

    Steph- Ms. Trouble doesn't want to take on anything else while her child is still in diapers.

    Petit Fleur- The big chicken farms raise them from egg to package in five weeks I think.

    XBox- Fried, grilled or stewed?

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  11. Normally I'd be all over house sitting, but this weekend I have Major Plans with my buddies.

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  12. silly little chicken!

    animals can get into the strangest of trouble. my kitty likes to chew on and rip apart cotton swab q tips. She has seen me throw them into my bathroom trash. So one day i get home from work and im looking for her. I cant find her anywhere. I hear her meowing and end up finding her in my bathroom trash can which has been tipped over. She was struggling to get out because she couldnt open the lid back up! silly kitty!

    you would think she had learned her lesson, but even after that, she still sits on the toilet lid and reaches into the trash looking for qtips! i find pieces of them throughout the house pretty much every day. what a funny little cat.

    oh how animals can warm our hearts and make us smile :)

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  13. DTG could use a couple of those chicks perhaps for his mutant-necked roach horde. Rent them out!

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  14. Hmm, kitties chewing on earwax stained qtips doesn't gladden my heart, somehow!

    The bin thing is cute though, I'll give you that.

    Anyone want to know about battery farming? Check this out: http://www.chickenout.tv/

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  15. DTG- Okay. Got cha. Another time.

    Learner- Reminds me of a story of mine wherein a roommate was doing a bunch of speed for a final and then after the final decided to clean the house (and this was about thirty-five years ago, okay?) and when I got home I couldn't find the kittens. He'd locked them in a cabinet in the bathroom and when we opened it, there they were, all sleepy-eyed, having napped nicely on the towels.

    Magnum- Yes. Rent-A-Chicken. Has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

    Ms. Jo- I think my chickens are treated humanely. Mr. Moon accuses me of treating them like babies, in fact. Can you imagine? Me treating something like a BABY? Where DOES he get these crazy ideas?

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  16. I just tried to go to your blog and I got the strangest message--it said the blog I'm about to view may contain adult content and I should "accept" this if I go forward.

    And I thought...adult content...hell yes!!

    =)

    But yeah. Weird huh?

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  17. jothemama:
    hahaha! no. earwax stained qtips is not appealing. good thing they are never that nasty. im a bit over the top with them, using them multiple times a day... so they usually come out just as clean as they went in.

    and maybe that was just a little too much information....

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  18. and due to the overuse... ill probably be deaf in about a year.

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