Chee-kens

You may have seen the advertisements for ACE Hardware stores this past weekend. They had a 20% off sale - 20% off of anything that you could fit into a bag. Tray needed some fishing line, so he figured why not buy it from ACE and get it 20% off? But then, he had this big giant Publix bag with only two boxes of fishing line in it, so he decided to fill his bag with chickens. Uh-huh, chickens. Four baby chickens.

Penny is in love. Actually, we all are (well, maybe not Lindy and Jake). They are so cute, and really very personable. Our favorite is Comet. She's a Golden Comet, and is very bold and will come and sit on your knee. I forgot already what the other three are, but one is littler than all the rest and I have a soft spot for her too. This afternoon the other three were blocking her from getting to the feeder and I moved them to let her eat. I have to look out for the little ones. ;)

Penny is completely fearless with them. We had them in a pet carrier while we converted our old dog pen into a chicken pen and when we set the carrier down to let them out, Penny stuck her whole arm into the carrier trying to fish the chickens out. I think she thinks they are like stuffed animals that she can just do whatever with, but she is actually very gentle with them -- and surprisingly doesn't get scared if they flap their wings or anything. She's so cute offering them chicken feed too, "here chee-kens. here's a num-nums." She cracks me up!






Tray with Comet: