Chickens Ahoy!

When I moved out of my apartment in LA and into a cabin on my parents' property in Mariposa, my original plan was to spend the winter looking for a new place, then move in spring, in time to start a garden and get some chicks.

The way things are going, especially due to the new, more contagious covid strains, that is clearly not happening. I was bummed about the gardening (I figured I could still do pots, but I'd been looking forward to a larger scale) and the chicks, which seemed impossible.

Last night I had a long talk with Kebi and got her full and enthusiastic permission to plant anything I liked around the cabin, including growing vegetables in the orchard next to the cabin and covering the orchard fence and gazebo with morning glories. She also...

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said I could put a hen house for four hens in the orchard! (There's only enough open space there for one big enough for four, and that's also of a size that I could pack up and move with me. I know four is not a lucky number, but we defy augury.)

CHICKS AHOY!

The place that got Kebi her chickens (mypetchicken.com) is sold out of almost everything and is mostly only shipping eight chicks at a time. I'm also nervous about getting mail chicks due to problems with the post office. But I called the local feed store, and they said they can order most kinds of day-old chicks for me.

If possible, I want one Buff Orpington (light brown eggs) and one Easter Egger (blue-green eggs) for sure. They're friendly, cute, and good layers. I'd ideally like a rainbow of eggs. Maybe a Wyandotte (extremely pretty, cream or tan eggs), or an Olive Egger (friendly, olive green eggs) or a Maran (dark brown eggs) or an Austra White (friendly, white eggs)...

Soon the chicks will be mine!