Chicken on a bike

Hiedi on the bike.

a regular day here on the farm...

Scott thinks hes a pirate, and sequehenna thinks she is a parrot.

Kennedy loves to get her picture taken.

Heidi goes to the Vet

The new chicken, Heidi, got bit by a dog. Kennedy tells the story in her blog. If you haven't read it, you must. These are some pictures the Mandy took of Heidi's trip to the vet. At the time, Scott was worried that her leg might be getting infected because her wound turned all black and funky and she wouldn't walk on her leg. The vet gave us some antibiotics to kill the infection and said that she should be just fine. If you don't know how much fun in is to give a chicken a pill, then you must come over and see.





Buckle up chicken bird! Yee haw!!


"I'm ready to roll!"

Stray Chicken Update

It turns out that we are keeping the stray chicken we found. The boy who owns it has been having trouble with someone opening his fence and letting the chicken out everyday, so he asked if I could watch her at my house untill he built a proper coop for her. I have been watching her for a couple weeks now, and the boy came over and told me that he was moving and that I could keep the chicken. So I think I will. I like her. I need to come up for a name for her.



On other news. I had a fun new basketball injury. Here is a picture for you to enjoy.

The Stray Chicken!

Most of the cats that we have owned in our lives, have been strays that have found there way to our house and claimed us. So we very familiar with strays. We have seen stray cats and dogs, but never before have we found a stray chicken! It seemed especially strange, because I already have chickens.

Today after lunch, we received a knock on the door from a neighbor informing us that one of my chickens were in there drive way. We checked our backyard real quick, and both of our chickens were back there. Knowing that it wasn't our bird, we were excited to see this chicken. We went to the neighbors drive way and there was a red hen searching for bugs. We had no idea whose chicken it could be. We were afraid it might get eaten by a dog, so I picked it up and took it home so it could be safe with my chickens. The chicken was wonderfully friendly and enjoyed Scott to hold it and pet it. Our chickens don't enjoy being touched, so Scott quickly bonded with his new found friend. We fed it and showed it the chicken coop, and it followed Scott around the yard for a while. Our chickens, Susquehanna and Laroo, were a bit upset with Scott bringing home a new lady. They voiced their discontent with angry little clucks. Fortunately, only one little fight between our chickens and the stray broke out.

We were not quit sure what to think. The neighbors were certain that she had been abandoned at my house because I already have chickens. We thought that she could be someones dearly loved bird, so we set out to find it rightful owners.

To Scott's great disappointment, we found the owners searching for their bird. It happens to be owned by a new kid that moved on to the street. He had just gotten the bird and doesn't have a coop for her yet. We look forward to staying friends with the little red hen as Scott had become quite attached.

Susquehanna goes to the Doctor!

Diana owns a little dog named Peanut. Here is a picture of this small nice dog. He kept crawling under our fence and barking at and chasing the chickens. We thought that the little rat of a dog could do little more than annoy the chickens. We were wrong. A week ago Peanut decided that barking was getting boring, so he decided to start bitting. And Susquehanna, yes she is as dumb as a chicken, just sat there and let the dog gnaw on her. Luckily, Scott found them and quickly chased Peanut away. But, by then Susquehanna was already all bloody. Scott and Kennedy took Susquehanna and put her in the bath tub and cleaned up her wounds and put some antibiotic on her. She seemed like she was ok, but as the week went on, she started using her leg less and less. Even though it is cute to watch the chicken hop on one foot, we decided that we had better take her to the vet to ensure that she is ok and make sure she doesn't lose her leg! Scott put Kennedy in the back window of the Charger and took her to the vet to the amusement of all the cars that saw a 68 Dodge Charger with a chicken as a passenger. The vet said that she was going to be ok and gave us some antibiotics to give her. Oh yes, giving a chicken a pill is great fun! Not as bad as giving one to a cat though.
Scott had the chicken in a cat carrier while waiting for the vet in the waiting room. She was contently softly clucking, almost enjoying her trip, while in the waiting room. Scott remembered that he had left something in the car and asked the receptionist if it was ok if he left Susquehanna in the waiting room while he ran to the car. She said it was ok, so Scott ran out to the parking lot. On the way back in, Scott opened the door and heard Susquehanna screaming! The receptionist said that the second Scott left the chicken freaked out. Scott ran over to Susquehanna and she immediately calmed down and relaxed. I guess Scott's chickens really do love him.

Today Kennedy and Scott enjoyed the nice sunshine! The chickens joined in as well. Here is Scott's fabulous chalk drawing. Kennedy drew this lovely picture on the window to welcome in the nice weather. If you can understand what it says, you win a prize! click on it to enlarge.This is Susquehanna our prized black chicken of wonder!! beautiful. Fresh eggs are abundant at the Olsen home!
We have two other chickens as well, LaRoo and Latisha. Here Scott is holding LaRoo.