If I'm knitting, I count my stitches by fives. 5-10-15-20... For some reason that's a number I can "see" easily as I'm sliding groups of stitches across my needles, five at a time. I almost always count things by fives.
When I count our chickens each night before I lock the up the coop, I count by threes. 1-2-3...4-5-6...7-8-9...10-11-12. And interestingly (or probably not, really ;-) if they are still milling around, I count the groups of threes three times, just to be sure.
Last night I had to count to just 11. We lost Blackie. I thought she looked a bit off yesterday morning and when she was no better in the afternoon I took her to the vet. I was thinking she was egg bound, but the xray showed just fluid, no eggs. Without something obvious to try to fix, we decided not to let her suffer.
Blackie was our "free" chick when I ordered this group. I never knew what breed she was, but she was a beautiful shiny green/black hen. A favorite. She had three really close calls as a baby and each time everyone was amazed she pulled through. Apparently chickens only have three lives :-/.
When I was trying to find a good picture of her I was surprised (well, not really :-/) that this favorite picture never made it to the blog back in the summer of 2020. This was taken when the girls were almost full grown.
1-2-3...4-5-6...7-8-9...10-11-12
13 comments:
Sorry that you lost Blackie, such a short life . You really do have lovely chickens.
I don't know about whether this photo made the blog, but it was a puzzle, and I really, really enjoyed putting it together. It was quite hard. Sorry you lost Blackie. My daughter had chickens a number of years ago, and they had such unique personalities. So much fun!
Ooh, I thought maybe I'd just forgotten to use the chicken label, but nope, not showing under puzzles either. Good memory though! :-D
I am sorry that you've lost beautiful Blackie. Last summer I was so taken by the "bouquet" of chickens who settled in near all of us at the table under the Redbud tree that evening. This is a beautiful photo of "The 3x4=12 girls. The photo of them on your May calendar also shows off their feathering so well.
Oh I'm sorry. Sometimes chickens just get something wrong with them and it's not fixable. (Just like with sheep.) Doesn't make it any easier though.
I have to say I never realized just how many pretty chickens you have. What a great assortment.
Laura
I wonder if Blackie was an Australorp; I think they are my favorite breed. I'm down to two of them....
What a fabulous photo of the girls!
I am sorry you lost Blackie, she was gorgeous! Chickens are so intetesting - I've never had any,but their personalities and feathers are amazing. Blackie is off running around with the Adventure Chickens of past ~
So sorry for Blackie's passing. That was the picture I commented looked like an autumn leaf! So interesting! Your chickens are quite lovely.
Well, I too went through all of your puzzles--I access them through the puzzle website, and this puzzle is not there!! I am positive I put it together at least two times because I remember how much I loved seeing the varieties of chickens you have and that they were loving the watermelon. Another small mystery of life is the missing puzzle, lol.
I too swear I remember that being a puzzle! So weird! Well, now it is and we can enjoy doing it fresh :-D.
Thank you!
It's hard to lose our chickens---they are so much fun!! To lose one is a hole in the flock.
Poor Blackie...suppose it was bird flu? You have some very pretty chickens! :)
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