Free Range

We've been letting the chickens out during the day to forage. They love it and gobble
up lots of japanese beetles and other insects and worms.

I'm still a bit perplexed about the genders of the five Blue Laced Red Wyandottes.
Regardless, these birds are just gorgeous and friendly to boot.

All the chickens like to nestle down under the perennials by the wood shop during the heat of the day.

When I described Nathaniel Hawthorn to the young man who sold him to me as a wee chick
he told me that Nathaniel is probably a Buff Orpington and Leghorn cross which explains his
incessant crowing. Still he and Charlotte Dickens (the Buff Orpington pullet) are quite
a cute couple spending all their time following each other around, nestling together, or
generally bossing the Wyandotte crew around.