Chicken Delivery

Now this is the way to start with chickens.  Izzy and the kids brought me the showy rooster, a cross between Barred Rock and Americana, and this sweet hen, a Buff Orphington.

Everyone assembled in Fort Flocks.  I nailed some welded wire fencing over the window, since many raccoons have been dropping by lately. Carolyn and Izzy were pleased to have a home for their pet hen. I named her Betty, after my favorite book, The Egg and I.

Betty, no doubt concerned that the van ride was headed in a sinister direction, got busy and laid an egg at once. Molly at last has gotten Grammie into chickens.

                               Here is definite proof that the chicken came first.