Aw, that is an adorable crow! Sort of reminds me of Peter Pan when they are all trying to crow. Now see Chipmunk hasn't even started crowing yet, and he's around 2 months or 8 weeks old. But I do think it's a he, just has to be based on the comb and the saddle of feathers. If he is a rooster he is the biggest Weenie of a rooster ever.
We had a long weekend, but I did end up hooking up a $20 fan in the coop which they were promptly all afraid of. I also put a metal catering pan out with ice water and herbs in it a la Tilly's Nest and they not only refused to go in it, I think they pooped in it. I have such low class chickens. ;-) Next time you all trek up to Danbury stop by Harrison and say HI! I didn't know you were coming this way, I might have tried to join you. I can't imagine dragging my husband to that sort of thing plus he would stop me from buying the really cool stuff, but I will come along next time you all go.
On the plus side the puppy is kinda getting better at herding and really helped me get them into the coop for bedtime tonight without scaring them too much. I need to work with someone that actually knows what they are doing re: herding lessons as telling her in English, "No, go that way!" and shoving her in the butt is not really a plan for success.
We harvested a bunch of purple potatoes already thanks to the puppy deciding to play tug of war with the potato stems, but they are really super cool! We got all these and this is just from one potato that I let sprout and then diced up. There's also one scarlet carrot and a few red beets in there too. I'm a believer in planting veggies of weird colors as it gets the kids excited. They had a good time digging for the taters in the dirt with their hands anyway, but they were so purple and cool it made it extra special I think.
