{"id":10063,"date":"2018-05-08T20:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.marjoleininhetklein.com\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2018-08-23T20:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:41:38","slug":"more-chicken-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.marjoleininhetklein.com\/en\/2018\/05\/08\/more-chicken-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"More chicken nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my Facebook followers who don\u2019t like chickens: I\u2019m sorry! These last days a lot of pictures and texts starring chickens have crossed my Facebook page. Most popular were pictures of the chicks sitting on my head. I\u2019ll cut down on the chicken nuggets from now on, I promise. But just in case you missed the whole thing: here\u2019s an update\u00a0:)<\/em><\/p>\n

As you may have read earlier, I adopted a hen and rooster from the Urban Earthship. I called them \u2018meneer de Haan\u2019 and \u2018mevrouw Hennie\u2019. Unfortunately, Hennie suffered from an inflamed crop and didn\u2019t survive, despite the good care of vet Claire from Dierenarts Noord-Holland. After she died, meneer de Haan was so upset, he just roamed around the terrain not knowing what to do. And at a certain point he only came to my Tiny House in the morning to get some food.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I was sad about losing Hennie. A rooster on its own seems a bit sad too, so Raymond brought me two young white chicks the other day. A silkie chicken and a leghorn (I\u2019m not sure about the second one, but I was told on Instagram ;)) Two hens to keep meneer de Haan company, that should bring him back. It\u2019s just\u2026it turned out to be a hen and a rooster instead of two hens! What to do? Return the rooster? That would mean the end of him; roosters have it hard in our society. Maybe it was meant to be that he was here? After a lot of thought I decided to keep him. Meneer de Haan had obviously decided to go back to the Urban Earthship. But, one hen for one rooster is a bid sad\u2026<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

On a drowsy Sunday I decided to buy another hen. Unfortunately silkie chicks weren\u2019t available anymore, but there were Wyandotte chicks. So I chose a sweet brown Wyandotte chick. She was still a bit small, but I didn\u2019t notice how big the difference was until I put her in the coop with the two white chicks. They started chasing her around the coop and kept pecking her the whole time. It was horrible to watch! I watched what was going on for a while but soon it was pretty obvious that this wasn\u2019t a good idea. I took her out of the coop and brought her inside my house. Pretty soon she sat on my neck and head, she loved it. So cute! I named her Bella, somehow that name came to me. At night I put her in the travel basket of Hella which I lined with a bit of straw and duck down from Priscilla\u2019s old nest. (Priscilla is a Muscovy Duck that spent some time brooding here, but she\u2019s left Elvis behind and now she\u2019s been missing for a few weeks.)<\/p>\n

But, one chick alone\u2026(you get the drift). So I asked around for advice and decided to bring in another chick. That way, Bella wouldn\u2019t be so alone and maybe together they would stand a chance against the white chicks. So, along came Blondie, from the same group of chicks where Bella came from, but she was still a bit smaller than Bella. They are so adorable together! They wandered around the house together and sat on my neck together. But they also poop the whole day through. It was everywhere! They needed to be able to go outside, but they couldn\u2019t go together with the white chicks yet. We\u2019ll try again after they grow a little bit bigger and stronger.<\/p>\n

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Raymond built a temporary coop where they can stay during the day, close to the other coop so they can see each other and get accustomed to each other at a safe distance. Meanwhile they can roam free every now and then too; while I\u2019m writing this they are all outside scratching. They are doing fine! I can watch them for hours. It\u2019s better than television! Not that I have a television, but it\u2019s still better ;) In a while I\u2019m going to try to see if they can all go in the coop together. At night, when Johnny and June (the white chicks, named after Cash and Carter) are sleeping, I\u2019ll put in Bella and Blondie and hope they won\u2019t butcher each other the next morning. There will always be a pecking order, but there are limits.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Elvis is fine with everything. Hella doesn\u2019t make much of it as well. \u00a0She finds the two birds a fuss in the house, but she doesn\u2019t attack them. I\u2019m keeping an eye on her and I think she knows she\u2019s in trouble if she tries anything ;) \u2018Those aren\u2019t chicken nuggets Hella. Friends!\u2019<\/p>\n

I love my tiny ranch!<\/p>\n