Weekly Chicken Fix

Another week has passed and the girls are getting along famously. Neither seems to be on the edge of panic any longer and both have taken to following me around and unpiling my piles of grass clippings shortly after I make them.

Martha seems to be taking on the alpha hen role; one can see where the phrase 'mother hen' originates watching these two.

They've been living exclusively out of the chicken tractor for about two weeks now and have learned all the ins and outs of their new lifestyle. They've learned where food and water is and where to settle in for the night. The chicken tractor isn't complete yet but it lacks mostly external wire -- chickens get really confused when you put up new chicken wire where there was none before.