
16/07/2025
Rouxsday Tuesday and feeling fine! 🐓
It was another scorcher today, and I spent most of it indoors doing chores, but after 4 pm Mr Blue and I headed outside to fill feeders, offer cantaloupe to the birds, and pick figs and tomatoes. We finished and tested the new trailer lights, so all that's left is to buy and install the new decking, then it will be ready for moving Pip at the end of the month. July is moving way too fast, and I'm not ready for the year to be half over yet. I'm planning several big, expensive, and time consuming projects before the end of the year, and neither I nor Mr Blue wants to get started on any of it, despite the necessity of each one. The only thing slowing me down is my own indecisiveness, and I'm not sure I'll ever get over that hurdle. 🤷🏼♀️
On another note... aren't these baby rooders just the cutest little puff balls? So far, only 4 of the 6 boys are crowing, while Britta and Pisces remain blessedly silent. They aren't noisy yet, and I don't even hear them until after 10 am, but that will change with maturity. I met our new neighbor last week, and it was the only person to view the house that had spoken to me about the chickens. She lives alone, works from home, and loves the sounds they make. How lucky are we to have had several great neighbors in a row who don't mind crowing roos!
Pictured here are Dante, Britta, and in the group photo Bristol and Pyxis. Dante, while head honcho, is not the largest of the little roosters, just the most eager to lead. Pyxis, by comparison is the smallest physically, but his confidence and personality have blossomed, along with his voice. He's the 2nd loudest crower among the littles. Britta and Bristol are the most confusing overall. They are huge physically and polar opposites in personality, but both are divine in their own unique way. Bristol is a chatty crower who loves to follow me around warbling about the day's events, while Brit is soft spoken, introverted, and spends an inordinate amount of time lying down playing passive. Tonight he stayed out past curfew watching Pearl, who has been sleeping with the peeps as of late, and wandered in after the hens were put up. I can't wait to see how he matures. 😍
I hope you have a pleasant evening my peeps. I'm off to watch our favorite show and look at coop ideas. Enjoy your night. ✨