I had my first goose egg about a month ago from a shop in Pike Place Market.
It was hard to crack, ginormous, filled the frying pan and delicious.
I failed to take a photo but I did draw a cartoon. I resolved never to show the goose egg to our chickens, in order to support morale.
I first caught site of the chickens following Jason around the other side of the car from this side.
They don’t react… until they see the red bowl.
At first some were distracted by me taking the photo but in the end they got down to business and followed the pied piper.
Sadly, the backups below had no concept there was wire between them and the popcorn; we had to chase them into the coop so they could eat with Bossy and Business, who know the ropes already.
Jason has taken to letting the hens roam around far more than I feel comfortable with; our nearest neighbor doesn’t mind if they jump the fence (and we make sure to give her plenty of eggs) but I still worry.
I was upstairs doing some chores before a business trip when Jason yells to call me downstairs. “You always want me to take photos of them doing something cute – bring your phone!”
So I get downstairs and what do I find but — Speaker Chicken (I think it’s Party Chicken in disguise but it’s hard to tell, the barred ones look so much alike).
So eventually we shoo her outa there.
But as you can see, the door is open…
And it’s much warmer inside than outside….
So the other barred chickens and business chicken (hard to tell in this light; she’s the rust colored one two chickens back) recon in the living room to think about this “being inside” business.
They cluck around where Speaker Chicken (one of the barred ones) was clucking around originally and then we shooed them out. Mercifully, no poop. Jason was thinking that the way Speaker chicken rooted around in the Xbox/Kinect cables, she was thinking of nesting….
Such are the perils of chickens in the springtime!
Crazy Ballard chickens.
Henrietta, the intrepid Ballard traveling hen, is again on the loose. Her owner, Lisa Mudgett, tells us she flew the coop just a day ago. “She wasn’t in her coop sleeping when we got home last night, so we’re guessing she’s on another neighborhood adventure,” Mudgett writes.
Bawk bawk, Merry Christmas!
I caught Bossy Chicken being cute.
They stared at us very carefully but decided against it. I think they were fascinated by the tile.
I have no idea how I missed this when it came out.
Seattle weather has been so bad lately that it’s been throwing chickens out of their yards.
Meanwhile, in Ballard, a rather unexpected storm victim was recovering: a hen. Shannon Christiansen found the wet and injured animal in her neighbor’s yard.
“Our neighbors don’t have chickens and she wasn’t one of our chickens, so we knew that she was lost and we figured the storm picked her up and blew her away from home,” Christiansen said.
The friendly hen is now a guest in her guest room. She became quite a hit on social media Monday after they posted pictures of the hen while searching for her owner.
Luckily there’s a happy ending here in the comments.
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