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Ari Gardens as a Verb

Fred* and Ethel are back! 🥳

Their history is complicated. I'll try to take some time to share it tomorrow.

I love them so! They both lay beautiful green eggs. So now I have 6 green egg layers.

*at the time these girls came to me in 2022, I already had a Lucy, so I named the red-bearded one Fred.

People who are really into the gender binary are upset that I have a chicken named Sam, a chicken named Houdini, and a chicken named Fred who lives with me part-time.

Whatever, boomers. Gender is a construct.

#ChickensOfMastodon#FediverseChook#Chickens
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AxWax

Last weekend the #FediverseChicks did a field trip to the, erm, field (well, the place where we grow grapes, oranges, veg etc), which is a couple of km from our house.

They were pretty good at tolerating the drive, and got lots of rewards upon arrival:

Lots of tasty weeds and critters aplenty, plus shade and protection by the orange trees!

A white hen and two white, two grey and a black chick are roaming around on some soil cracked by drought and poor care. In the background are several flowering orange trees and an almond tree.
A white chicken and its chicks are resting underneath an orange tree full of oranges.
#FediChickens#Chickens#gardening
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Ari Gardens as a Verb

Having a chicken in the house is not as fun as it sounds! 🤣 (don't worry, she's not sick-sick, and I'm not going to die of bird flu. Yet.)

Normally I would not have a bird in the house for this long, but we are having some trouble with wound healing.

She is stinky, loud, strong-willed, and insists on roaming when I open her cage to clean it, which is multiple times a day because she's messy, and the expensive fucking chicken diaper that I bought her doesn't stay over her butt even though I weighed her to make sure it was the "right" size, so she can't wander the house like she wants to.

I can't let her back out into the chicken yard for two reasons: she gets bullied, which is how she got injured in the first place, and the injury is inside her mouth, so if she pecks at the dirt or the crumbly/powdery chicken feed, it gets stuck in the wound. (It is gross. I've had to debride the wound multiple times and that's not fun at all for either one of us.)

I've got my "guest" chickens returning tomorrow afternoon, so that is going to ramp up the stress in the chicken yard.

I'm thinking, however, if I can get her wound healed enough for her to get back out by the upcoming weekend, the distraction over the next 2 weeks when the guest birds are close by but still in isolation, might actually be to her advantage.

A cute little white chicken with a red breast like a robin and a bright red face and small red comb giving me the side eye from inside her black wire dog crate. She is standing on wet, messy paper towels and has a small blue and brown water bowl and white food bowl with some mushy peas remaining in it in the front of the kennel.
#Chickens#ChickensOfMastodon#FediverseChook
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Vanalope

The girls were 7 weeks old yesterday. Was only able to get 4 in this shot as two had their heads in their feeder. Lol They just got some fresh sod as we're digging the foundation for their new adult coop.

Up front are Stheno (bare legs), Medusa (heavily feathered legs), behind Stheno is Alecto, and behind Medusa is Euryale. Tisiphone and Megaera are the two off camera having a feed. #ChickensOfMastodon #chickens

Four young brown and tan chicks cluster near a blue water bucket with two orange drinking cups. Two of them stand on a piece of freshly dug sod.
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