Happy Harvest Blog
Next I would like to try poached
Cheeks' condition is about the same. She seems quite well, other than her foot, which she only sometimes uses. HW is starting to accuse her of just milking it. Cheeks gets a fried egg.
Operation Cheeks
Cheeks is well. She needed her afflicted foot addressed, and redressed.HW likes to hold her up sitting on her tail, and that it makes her look like a little person. She is surprisingly very ok with this. Whatever you do, don't put these pictures on the internet! From this upright position, she is very involved in the whole operation. Quiet and still, but watching it all up close. I had to flush her wound and try to squeeze out any pus.
Happy holidays
Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas today, if that’s your culture, and maybe a delicious meal! No need to eat it with this intensity, though:) Happy Cheeksmas!
Chill and chilly
Melting ice for water. It’s so pretty. It looks like thick glass. It’s a goldfinch convention. They are usually here with the grosbeaks, but the grosbeaks are late today and the goldfinches have the place to themselves, for a bit. Cheeks is having a good day. It’s warm in a sunbeam on a lap and her head is high. She’s wearing a festive holiday scarf. She can see herself (and me) in the mirror of my computer screen, which is hilarious. Do the think the scarf is “me”?
cheeks and the baked goods
All very peaceful, until a croissant comes out. First, it was pie crust, similarly discovered by accident – I was eating it within her reach, and she stabbed out her beak- I’ll have some of that! Multigrain croissant has proven to be such a huge and lasting hit, that I’m like Ok, eat some more of your grains, and then you can have croissant. She’s like I’ll wait. I can carry a box of them through the room, and her little head periscopes out of her banana box, following me.
Shenanigans
Cheeks put herself back in her box after breakfast yesterday. I'm done. Either I spent too much time with the other chickens, or she thought if she was settled back in her box when I got back, she might avoid the pill procedure. Today she just settled on her box. In the greenhouse, all it takes to create a stir is a half dozen hay bale chunks set around. They disrupt the chicken run flow, make something to pick at, and they must all be inspected.
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