New family members, Gladys and Thelma
December 2nd, 2007 by Jenni
Today was kind of exciting, we got two new chickens. Meet Gladys (the mama) and Themla (her baby). Gladys is the one in the front and Thelma is the one in the back. We got them from a lady who offered them on freecycle. We are excited to have a couple of banty hens, aren’t they pretty! We are going to keep them in this little pen in the coop for a few days while they get used to the other chickens. The banty hens are quite a bit smaller than our other chickens and the larger ones could kill them if we are not careful how we assimilate them with the others. They were actually a group of three hens and a rooster but were put with a bunch of other chickens and the rooster and one of the hens were killed so their old owner took them back and wanted to find another home for them, we are hoping they work out with our group of chickens.
Here’s a picture of me and my little helper. I bundled her up and took her out with me to the coop. She is amazing. She REALLY wants to do everything I do. If she could, she would be at the sink “doing dishes” all day long! One day this will actually be a huge blessing, until then, I choose to see it as a blessing and I clean up a lot of water off the floor and toss many wet shirts and pants into the ever-growing dirty clothes hamper. I love Guenna’s heart, she is such a sweetie. She brings so much joy to my heart. She’s an eager little girl, eager to learn to potty train, eager to put on her shoes, coat, gloves, hat, and usually eager to take them all off as soon as put them on.
Well, I’m off to watch “Mayor of Casterbridge” with my love. We’ve had a long and fun weekend finishing our chicken yard, snow, decorating our Christmas tree (pictures soon), church and new song Sunday, and getting new chickens. We feel like we deserve to veg a little ;) Blessings to you all!
