We love our birds
And the final extension to limit the free-ranging to a few hours at the end of the day. A small closable tunnel leads from it to underneath the kid's trampoline to give the birdies a much bigger roaming area and some extra shady outside from the summer sun:
It all started out so small:
The Ladies:
The Benevolent leader: Scrappy, a White Amber-link.
She has HARD molts:
Waffles: First Lieutenant, a Barn-Leg mix (peach colored eggs):
Buttercup, a Buff Brahma, and Darlin, a Black Australorp:
Buttercup as a wee lass:
Darlin as a white-chested tyke:
Our Dahlia, our very contemplative Speckled Sussex:
Dahlia, as the adorable chick:
Bullet, the troublemaking Blackstar Sex-Link:
Tiny Bullet, with Frodo,a rooster since rehomed:
The particular Pandora, a Silver-Laced Wyandotte:
Pandora as a pup:
And Cookie, our Cuckoo Marans and the most motherly, front left with Darlin, Pandora, and Buttercup:
And as a little Cookie:
And the two additions for 2012, Lola, the Light Brahma (with no leg-feathers, hmph) and Jackie, the Buff Orpington.
And our dearly departed, deaths by irresponsible dog owners:
Bunny, a true but very mean Ameraucana:
Bilbo, a Plymouth Barred Rock:
And the one that made raising chickens a joy, the jolly Belle, a Light Brahma:
