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Elanor: HAPPY
Sophia: HATCHDAY
Marianne: OMELETTE!
Sophia: HATCHDAY
Marianne: OMELETTE!
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Henny: I like frogs.![]()
Penny: ???
Henny: I found a dead one once. I tried to eat it but Mom stopped me.It was funny looking!![]()
Akira: Poor frog!![]()
Henny: Well, I didn't kill it so you can't blame me!
Louise: GET OUT OF MY SPOT AUDREY!!!!!
Audrey: Why?
Louise: Because it's my spot!!!!
Audrey: Fine. But I'm getting it tomorrow...![]()
Midge: I hope Susan is doing better!
Akira: I hope she liked my card!I worked so hard on it!![]()
Henny: Would you quit preening, Penny?
Penny: Sorry! Some of my coverts are out of place! And we had to preen for at least 15 minutes for feather care.
Henny: It's been more than 45...
Akira: I can't wait for your chicks to hatch, Elvis! Show us some pictures when they do!
Audrey: You must be so nervous, Elvis and Berny!
Louise: You'll both do great!
Dandelion- Mom let us in the barn today!!!!!!!!!! She kept on making flashes with the famera.
Akira: The famera scares me so I run away from it.I was being tolerant in my picture.
Gertie: I like the famera, it lets everyone see my cuteness!![]()
Captain Flint: I guess I like it too. Because here I am, thanks to the famera!
Princess: This is me! I'm a Orpington/Australorp mix (I think)
Lady Bullseye: And last, but not least (drumroll please) - me!!!!!
Miss Terry: Ahem! Someone forgot me!
Lady Bullseye: Oh yeah, sorry....
Miss Terry: Me, before I started molting and hurt my wing and such.
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Dandelion: I said I would stand still, but there was so much to do in the barn!!!!! I didn't do that very well.![]()
Pebble: Me either, its kinda weird.
Sienna: I loved it!
Pebble: 'course you did.
Bisquick: Today we made our Christmas wish lists!!!
Buttermilk: Yea. And Mommy and Grampi woke us up at 7:30 at night!!!!!!!!
Snap: Relax, they were putting a light in our coop so that we could see better and have lots of light.
Junior: On my Christmas list I want this:
1. Ultimate Digging Kit
2. Scarf
3. The mystery solving kit.
Bisquick: This is my list:
1. Santa hat
2. New ladder
3. Scarf
Buttermilk: This is my list:
1. Nail Polish from the Nestbox Store
2. Scarf
3. Feather Shine kit
Snap: This is mine:
1. Ultimate Digging Kit.
2. Helthy comb kit.
3. -Surprise!-
Bisquick: Um, you spelled 'Healthy' wrong.
Snap: Did not!!
Junior: Does anyone else have Christmas lists?
Buttermilk: I hope I get nail polish. :3
Omlette: Mama and her two friends rescued a butterfly once but it diedthey named it Mick![]()
Mohawk: Mama rescued a mouse once too...it didn't die![]()
Apple: Hey Berny! Pumpkin and I are ameracaunas too!
BErny: yay more americaunas
Elvis: your siblings shouild be here either this morning or tomarrow morning
Berny: ayayayayayayayayayayayayayaayayayayayayayayayayayayayaayayayayayyyayayayayayayayayayaayayaaayayaya *takes a deep breath* yayayayayayayayaayayayayayayayyayayayayayayayayayayyaaya woah i'm light headed
Elvis: lol
dandelion: good luck all you americaunas!!!!!!!
Junior: It's. So. Cold.
Snap: Aw, it's not that bad. Just a little breezy.
Junior: *cough cough* ahem lots of wind *cough cough*
Bisquick: AAhh, it's so nice to have this light in our coop instead of supposed to be shining in through the windows.
Buttermilk: Yea, Grampi didn't really think that one through.
Snap: It's these days that I love our coop cause it's so toasty.
Junior: Mommy tried a scarf on me, but I did NOT like it. It's too snug!!
Buttermilk: It looked so comfy and cute on you though Junior!
Junior: I know, if it was a bit looser than I would like it.
Bisquick: Soon we're gonna pick names to go shopping for each other.
Snap: YAY!!! I call Junior!!!
Bisquick: You can't call names. We draw them out of a hat.
Snap: Oh okay.Then I'll draw Juni. *pulls out pen and paper*
Bisquick: SNAP! We pick names out of a hat. We can't choose, we can't draw the chicken that we want, we pick. Pick pick pick pick piiiick!!!
Snap: Okay.![]()
Berny: i don't know what i want for krissmus
Elvis: it's spelled christmas
Berny: oh : P
Bisquick: Mommy's getting us a Christmas tree for our coop.
Buttermilk: Yup, and we're gonna decorated our coop and everything.
Snap: I wanna help decorate the nestboxes!!!
Junior: I'm decorated the ladder.![]()
Dandelion: Mommy hasn't decorated ours yet!!!!!!!!!!!! She said she's working on christmas presents!
ElvisL: i just heard that the babies might not get here today![]()
Berny: i like bugs![]()
Brownie: We just got out![]()
Mocha: It's a lot colder then yesterday!
Brownie: Yea yesterday was so warm! Mom had us out for two hours
Peep: Hey guys! Watcha doin'?
Brownie: Talking about the weather.
Peep: *strage look* Okkk..
Cheep: MOVE! *peck peck*
Brownie and Mocha: OW!
Cheep: Out of my way! *peck*
Mocha: OW!
Peep: *gulp*
Mocha: *gulp*
Brownie: *gulp* She's in another one of her sour moods!
Peep: She gets them A LOT now that she is molting.
Cheep: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!
Mocha and Peep Brownie: NOTHING! *blank stares*
Cheep: Hmmm, *turns around and walks away slowly.
Peep: *wipes comb* WOOO! That was close!
Mocha: Too close.
Berny: hey momma
Elvis: yeah berny?
Berny: can i go hug mumbo???
(mumbo is the neighbors giant fluffy cochin)
Elvis: if it's alright with mumbo than go ahead
Berny: yayayayayayyayayayayayayayayayayayaya
Elvis: treat boy just got the conframation call!!!!! the babies will be here in the morning![]()
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Dandelion: YAYAYAYAY! Mommy said she is starting to get a case of the chick fever!!!!!!!! I hope its not live threatening...
Lady Bullseye: Yay! Show us picks when the chicks arrive, Elvis!![]()
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Captain Flint: Squawck!!!!!!!!!! Oooooohhh that hawk! I'm going to kill him!!!!!!
Lady Bullseye: The hawk attacked again, but were all fine.
Princess: Mostly. He was trying to eat me! *shiver* he hurt my comb and under my eye. :'( Ow! It hurts to cry!![]()
Miss Terry: I hid under the nest boxes in my coop, and Fluffballs and her sister couldn't find me. They were afraid it had got me.
Captain Flint: I flew out of the coop and squawked and crowed and got the Food People's attention. They came out and saved Princess!
Gertie: At first when he was making a ruckus, they thought it was me, laying an egg.
Petrie: SOUND THE PREDATOR ALARM!
Ducky: Yes, ma'am! *ahem* BAWK BAWK BAGAWWWKKKKKKKK BAWK BAWK BAGAWWWWWWK!!!
Me: *pokes head out of back door* It's just a squirrel, girls.
Petrie: Oh. Okay.
Ducky: BAGAWK-
Petrie: You may stop now.
(True story.)
Brownie: Today was bath day!
Mocha: It was kinda warm out that is why she did it today.
Cheep: We got rapped up in towels!
Peep: That is my favorite part!
Cheep: At the moment its my favorite part to because I have no feathers so when Mommy put me in the water its REALLY cold.
Brownie: Well anyways we got to play and Mommy put some stuff on our combs to make them not dry and cracked.
Cheep: Mine was REALLY cracked.
Peep: Man my feathers are already dry! That was fast.
Cheep: It didn't take my 30 feathers to dry either! HINT HINT
Peepers: i'm now in advanced perching cause i perched on treat boys hand!!!!
Elvis: mmmmmmmmmmmoooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaan (moan)
Peepers: whats wrong????
Elvis: so broody........
(also true story)
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Bridgette: There are some good reads in Selena's (Hope i got her name right) But i want to know whose digging them up..Sunrise's Diary
Olive tree Organic eggs
August 23, 2011
Smoke lies heavily on the air. The nearest fire is over 300 miles south, but the wind is blowing smoke up this way. The sun is a dull cherry in the grayish yellow blanket of the sky. Pecky and Susan stopped laying when the smoke blew in, as well as others. Nobody is in a good mood. It is just hot and hazy. In Foraging Skills, we are doing a Fire Safety unit. As if we needed any more reminders that there was fire around here. All the grass is dry, and any small spark will set the hills into a hot blaze. As a result the humans are doing a lot of fireproofing, and twice as much worrying. Oh, in other news, some of the Barn A-ers snuck in here. I forgot thier names. Lea was one of them, and another was, I think, Sally or Sal.
Susan's diary
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August 23, 2011
The Barn A-ers "raided" barn B today. Several hens reported them with great exaggeration. I decided not to tell what I had seen them doing: Egg eating! They were in enough trouble already, poor pullets. It is so smoky out I have stopped laying, and the teachers decided to do an impromptu Fire safety unit. Sunrise hates it, but the break from laying is nice. I lay almost every day, so I need to take a break, now don't I?
Sincerely,
Sunrise Laura
Selena's diary
Olive tree organic eggs
~August 2011?
Dear Diary,
It is hot and smoky. Maybe it will rain soon and the smoke will disappear. Anyway, yesterday Leannie and Jammie and I snuck into barn B. We weren't noticed by the humans, but we left anyway, because some of the hens were being mean. Then the humans found out and we got grounded. Now we can't get on the computer for three days! Oh, well, its only three days. It would be longer if they knew we had eaten a few eggs in there.
Luv, your author,
Sal
Sophia's Travel Diary...
I have been here for nearly a year, and I should really stop calling this a travel log. But I only seem to open it when some life milestone turns up, so it is not a journal but a log. The reason I open it today is not a milestone, but a mystery. I had a difficult assignment in The Pecking Order , and there was a complex dynamic that I needed to figure out (semi-submissive standard hen and two submissive half-bantams) that was not in my notes. Elanor told me that somewhere among the heaps of books, there was a guide to pecking order book. I couldn't find it, but Elanor knew it had been there. So I looked under the bookshelf, and I found a very small key. I was quite confused. There are very few locks in our coop, and those that are there are combination locks, with no keys. Selena had no use for locks with keys, especially keys that small--she never could keep track of them. I had been with Elanor and Marianne since they were two months old, and they have never had any use for keys that I know of. And just yesterday, Marianne was saying that it was wrong to keep secrets from your family, and Elanor fervently agreeing. So who did this key belong to? I was at my wit's end when I saw, very small, but carved into the top of the key, letters. All caps, it was SEH. What is SEH? was it something this key went to...??
Super Excellent Hens?
Quote: Sophia: Or I could always look back at BBSJ...
Elanor: What?
Sophia: I was trying to find out Sunrise's and Susan's middle names.
Elanor: I don't know what Susan's was, but it was Sunrise Elanor. And I am Elanor Sunrise. Isn't that cool? And we are very alike, according to Selena...
Marianne: and I am Marianne Susan! And Susan and I are alike too!
Sophia: Of course! SEH is Sunrise Elanor Henley....I never knew her, and the chicks knew her for 24 hours. And then she died of internal laying.
Sophia: A key, but no keyhole....Now where would Sunrise hide something.....hey, chicks, what all did Sunrise say to you before she died?
Elanor: That she loved us, that she wished Susan would have lived to see us, and that we should be middle-named after them.
Sophia: Nothing about a key or a keyhole?
Marianne: Nope!
Sophia: You guys know NOTHING about a key...Sunrise never mentioned a lock on anything?
Elanor: we know nothing.
Marianne: She said what she wanted to say. And then we went back to the brooder.
Sophia: You haven't seen a keyhole?
Marianne: Nope.
*neighbor chicken walks in with bag of giant marbles.*
Molly: Hey, I have your marbles back--the blue one is chipped but....*trips and marbles spill all over, bouncing and spilling across floor.*
Molly: Oh no....Sophia, what are you doing?
*Sophia is bouncing a marble against one section of floor, than another. A section near the waterer sounds hollow.*
Sophia: That's where I heard that hollow spot! elanor, Marrianne, help me move the waterer!
*all three chickens push waterer aside to reveal a hatch with a keyhole*
*chickens move waterer and find the trap door. There is a keyhole. Sophia grabs key with SEH engraved in it, and pushes it into keyhole. She turns it slowly. It springs open. Below is a small space, with a wooden box within. The three grab it, and open it. It is large, with a fancy latch and hinges. On top of the box's contents is a small paper. It reads
I had to do this. Had to hide this stuff away for a future generation, like a time capsule, instead of leaving it out for Sal to find. I have no idea who will find this. Maybe the chicks that will come in a while. Maybe the next batch of chickens, or the next one after that. I don't mind when, but I don't want Sally finding this. It would make her too depressed, what with Susan's death and all that has happened.
I am hiding away my legacy, and Susan's, and Sal's. I am hiding away my diaries, written in daily in secret from everyone, even Susan. They start from my chick days, and end with Susan's illness. And I am hiding away Susan's diaries. I looked through them, but didn't read them. They seem to cover the same time span as mine. And I am hiding Sally's diaries, too. She doesn't write nearly as much, and doodles a lot, rarely writes dates. Hers seems to cover her chick days (year after mine) and her earlier and later times at the farm, in a different barn then Susan and I, and then her writing seems to stop about three months after her arrival here, then restart a while later, I don't know when.
To find this, one will have to find they key under the bookshelves, then open the trapdoor under the waterer with it.
Sunrise Elanor Henley
*1st entry from Sunrise's diary*
March 19, 2009
MurruyMcmurry Hatchery
Shipping preparation room 138D
My name is Sunrise Elanor. I am a red sex-link not much more than three hours old. Already all the female members of my hatch and I, as well as a handful of males, are in a shipping box, ready to be sent to a destination. Nobody knows where, but it is a large shipment. My sister Susan, who was incubated next to me, is sitting beside me, warm and comforting. We have known each other for three hours, and already the best of friends. She and I were relieved when put in the same shipment. We have 48 hours to get where we are going.
Sincerely, Sunrise Elanor
Buttermilk: *in a whispery voice* Guys, I need advice on how to hatch egg-
Bisquick: Ah!! No, no, no. Buttermilk, you know what l told you. No getting advice.
Buttermilk: *in a whiny voice* But whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???????
Bisquick: Because, who wants a grouchy chicken in their bedroom whenever they go to lay eggs???
Buttermilk: But Bisquick-
Bisquick: No buts. I advise you down to ranking lower than Junior at the moment.
Buttermilk: But, but-!!!!!
Bisquick: Junior, I give you the rights to peck Buttermilk.
Junior: Ummmm
Buttermilk: I'll peck you right back Junior
Junior: BIIISQUIIICK!!! BUTTERMILK SAID THAT SHE'LL PECK ME RIGHT BA-
Buttermilk: DID NOT!! DID NOT!!! I DIDN'T SAY THAT I WOULD PECK HER RIGHT BACK IF SHE PECKED ME!!! I SAID- oops.
Bisquick: Buttermilk, I banish you to the bedroom.
Buttermilk: Goodie!!
Bisquick: NO!! Instead I banish you to the greenhouse.
Buttermilk: *hmph*
*The greenhouse is the wire part of their coop that their water is in.
Seana: I laid my first egg.
Lily: We confused Malibu. I laid an egg this morning and she thought I was Seana and when Seana laid an egg, Malibu was all "TWO EGGS IN ONE DAY?!!?!?! :O" then she realized it was two chickens.
marsha: laying eggs is hard! i have been having some trouble since that first one.
midnight: i sympathize. i lay one every day, though.
marsha: WOW. i can't imagine me laying an egg a day...
midnight: good thing gracie isn't here...
gracie: I HEARD THAT!
marsha: oops...
gracie:... GRRR!
marsha: you don't scare me... to be entirely truthful, you don't scare anybody!
gracie:... DOUBLE GRRRR!!!
Lily: Petrie's all grumpy again. She has to egg.
Petrie: *snort* How am I supposed to egg in this heat?!?! >:
Lily: I rest my case.
Buttermilk: Gosh, when will Mom come get us!!?? If she doesn't come get us soon, then l'm going back into the bedroom. This heat is so sweltering I think I'll faint!!!
Bisquick: Mmmhm, and of course going into a bedroom with no air circulation at all is so going to help the sweltering heat.
Buttermilk: Bisquick, sometime I feel as though you look for things to accuse in me.
Bisquick: No, Buttermilk, I don't have to look for them they're too easy to find. *smirks*
Buttermilk: Think what you want Bisquick, but soon enough this sassy talk of yours will make everyone want me leader and everyone will want you out of the-
Bisquick: *PECK* BUTTERMILK, do NOT threaten to take my position, or else I will send you into shame, and banish you when we come out. AND, when you stop brooding and start laying, I will make you lay your eggs in the run.
Buttermilk: *gaps* You wouldn't!! That's a horrible punishment!! Where did you get such a thing??!!
Bisquick: *mumbles* Uh, I just got it from Petrie.
Buttermilk: How's that?
Bisquick: Nothing. Mark my words Buttermilk...................................
cocoa: *gapes* how do you actually have an egg? and what does it f...
briget: cocoa, i comand you to hush before you say anything embarrasing!
sweetie: what's so embarissing about being curious?
briget: ...........
cocoa: so then can i ask my question? what does it fee....
briget: *peck peck peck* stop! dont ask that question!
sweetie: why are you the boss?*tries to chase briget into mud*
briget:*pecks sweetie on bill and hops over her back* because i am the only one here in this barn with any common sense!
cocoa:*whispers* pssst! what does it feel like to have an egg.......uh-oh!
briget: cocoa!!!! *peck peck peck peck!*
cocoa: sorry! *mumble* kind of...
Snap: Laying an egg is almost like laying a ginormous poop wad.
Buttermilk: Snap, that's horrifyingly disgusting.
Junior: Guys, guess what!!?? School started today!!! I love school!!!
sweetie: school? that sounds like fun!
briget: *sigh* sweetie, everything sounds like fun to you.
cocoa: if it feels like a... thingy... then what does it smell like?*thinks to self*maybe i shouldn't have asked that...
sweetie: what do you do for school?
briget: i do hope its educational school.
sweetie: what kind of school is not educatia- whatsit?
briget:........
sweetie: my point exactaly. you have been at a lose for words a lot lately, are you ok?
briget:*peckpeckpeckpeckpeckpeckpeckpeck!!!!!* how dare you say that to beta chicken?!(momma is alpha)
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AnnaBeth: mmm i got rose leaves sooo good.
Petrie: Ella, Mir and I took a giant dustbath today. I didn't peck her until Malibu scattered scratch... then Mir tried to shove it all in her mouth and I pecked her and Malibu shood me away. ._.
Junior: You guys totally ditched me up in the trees today!!!
Bisquick: Well, sorry, you were lost in your own little thoughts muttering to yourself.
Junior: I was not lost in thought!!! I know perfectly well around my own brain. I was just simply deep in thought.
Bisquick: Oi.
Bisquick: I wonder how Ammy and Pepper are doing............
Junior: Yea, I hope they're okay!!
Snap: I do too, but what if-
Buttermilk: No, Snap!! Don't start with those 'what if's' it's been driving me crazy this morning!!
Snap: Okay, okay, I'll stop.![]()
Brownie: Man its chilly out the s'morning.
Mocha: * taking a dust bath* Well heres a bright idea Brownie, why don't you move instead of standing still. You will get warm that way. Thats why i am taking a dust bath.
Brownie: I am not in the mood to take a dust bath. * starts running around the cage to get warm*
Cheep: *Comes out of the warm area* What on earth is she doing Mocha?
Mocha: That is the question of the morning!
Peep: Oh Mocha good idea! I am freezing off my butt! I will take a dust bath......
Brownie: * pant* *cough* * pant* Guys * cough* I need * pant pant* Water!!
Mocha: ok gees la weese! Its over there.
Brownie: * PANT* *COUGH*! OK THANKS!
Mocha: Ew I just got clean don't cough on me. Thats revolting.
Brownie: *turns around* Fine!
Teacher for school: Now class turn to page 14 in your chicken handbook-
Bisquick: *in a whisper voice* Quick hurry!!
Teacher: What on earth Bisquick!!??
Bisquick: GO GO GO!!!!!!
*All the chickens scramble out of a window*
Snap: OOff!! That was a long fall.
Junior: *dusts off self* Ow, Bisquick, didn't you have any other bright ideas.
Buttermilk *In a whiny voice* G-a-rooooooos. I got dirt on my freshly cleaned feathers.
Bisquick: Well, Junior- *glances at Buttermilk and glares at her* What else were we gonna do? Ask the teacher if we could skip school for the day?
Junior: I guess not.
Snap: We should ask Mom if we can be coopschooled!!!
Junior: Yea!! Mom does that except that she calls it 'homeschooled' I wonder why.........
Bisquick: Good plan team. And lunch we will ask Mom
(The chickens escaped their classroom by climbing out of a window)
Peep: GOOD IDEA BISQUICK! i haaaaatttte school!
Cheep: huh! Peep its a good way to increase your knowledge with your perspective in life.
Brownie: UHG! So many long words! I'm with Bisquick and the escape plan.... DUN DUN
Mocha: Yeaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Cheep: I'm telling mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peep: I'll let you have the window tonight!
Cheep: I always get the window though.
Peep: Ummm you can have the majority of the food!!!!
Cheep: ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE ME FAT?!
Peep: NO NO
Brownie: It wouldn't make a difference i mean she is chubby * she whispers to Mocha*
Mocha: I know!
Cheep: I HEARD THAT!!!!! And its not fat its muscle thank you very much.. Its from flying class which we do in school. So if you want to look like me I suggest you come.
Brownie Mocha Peep: Finneeeeeeeeeee.....
Junior: Yaaaay!!! We are being coopschooled!!!!!
Bisquick: Even though it's not lunchtime we asked Mom. :3
Snap: Coopschooling will be so much fun!!!!
Buttermilk: I guess. I mean, I can stay in the brooder a lot more!!!
Bisquick: *facepalm*
Ella: We're coopschooled. Malibu's teaching me how to ride a bike!![]()
Cheep: PAINTING OUR NAILS TODAY WAS SOOO MUCH FUNN! I love it when Mommy paints our nails! * squeal*
Brownie: ME TOO! * squeal* But i didn't like the whole 'sitting still' part.
Mocha: I love the color of mine.
Peep: * in the corner trying to pick it off with a panicked look*
Cheep: Whats wrong Peep?
Peep: DOES THIS STUFF COME OFF?????!!!!!!! I CANT HAVE GREEN NAILS FOREVER! AHHHH OH NON OH NO * starts hyperventilating*
Mocha: Chill out, It comes off in like a month or so. But for us like Hmmmmmmmmmm 2 weeks.
Peep: 2 WEEKS???? I cant wait that long!
Cheep: It will be fine...
Peep: * starts hyperventilating again*