every day is a good day
Hazel’s love knows no bounds. Here she is showing her chicks how to eat sunflower seeds. It’s hard to see in the pictures, but she’s shelling them to show her chicks how good they are inside. As long as mother is nearby, the chicks are at ease and wanting to explore everything.
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It’s like camping for chickens. Skunky and some of the other chickens hatched this spring like roosting in this sequoia for the night. The sequoia is close to the chicken yard, but these young chickens would rather spend the night enjoying the cool night air in the tree than hanging out with the older, fuddy-duddies.
Looking at the sequoia, you’d be hard pressed to realize there are fourteen chickens roosting in it. I do worry about owls swooping in at night. But the chickens want to go camping and until the fall rains come, I’ll let them enjoy the sequoia.
August brings dreamland, mother hens tending their chicks, swelling poppy pods, cabbages growing, fattening sunflower buds, so many things to stop and dream about. I like dreamland. Chickens love dreamland.
No two snowflakes are the same. We’ve heard that a million times. Neither are any two blackberries. Each one is like no other blackberry. All you need to do is look at them closely. Hold them side by side and there they are, two unique blackberries. No matter how many blackberries you pick, you can never pick the same one twice.
It’s the same with eggs. You can never have the same egg twice. Or the same lovage seed, and a single lovage plant produces thousands and thousands of seeds. It must be a lot of work making sure no two are ever the same.
Or the same melon flower. Each flower blooms only once. All the things we see, all the clouds that flow overhead, all the birds that sing for us, we never see the same thing twice. Nothing is like anything else.
What name do I give this chick? One of Hazel’s chicks has a woodpecker face. It has a featherless neck like Hazel, a Turken chicken. These naked neck Turkens are from Transylvania. This little chick’s biological mother is Special, Hazel’s daughter. Special is a cross between Hazel and Sven, a Swedish Flower Chicken.
