Natsu! It’s been a while since you came inside the chicken coop. There are chicks here — not that he cares. Where are you going? He’s acting like a good boy, but a minute ago he was eyeing the Java sparrows and biting people. This has turned into a video of Natsu being cute.
Our pigeons
Our 16 pigeons are looking lovely. This one’s a male — see how his neck puffs out? He’s telling me there’s no food, so let’s put some in.
Lately our pigeons seem to have settled in, and they’re trying to build nests in the chickens’ nest boxes. That’s for the chickens! If you build a nest there, the chickens will wreck it right away.
And Happy has been caught misbehaving on people’s shoulders. Pulling on earrings hurts! You need to find a mate soon, too. Several of our pigeons have paired up since they came, but Happy pecks at the girls, so they don’t like him. And that one’s a chicken! Are you a chicken? No, you’re not. He seems a little unsure of his own identity.
The Othello brothers
This rooster who won’t stand up and has gone all floppy in relax mode is Othello White. He and his brother are colored like the black and white pieces of the board game Othello, so I named them White and Black. Roosters squawk until they’re caught, then go limp once they are.
(Meanwhile, Glico is absolutely furious about something — and pooping while angry. Please don’t!)
Meet Othello White and Othello Black
Their father is a fighting bird, and their mother is half fighting bird and half ordinary wild chicken, so they’re 75% fighting bird — which gives them wonderful long legs.
Othello White was next door and we’d had complaints, so we caught him. I opened the trap door, scattered food inside, and he simply walked in, so I slammed the door shut. Later, their mother was caught too: she’d made a nest very close to our rest area, and when I glanced behind my chair, there she was sitting on eggs. No resistance at all.
Othello Black, I said, would never get caught — but we caught him after all! Here’s the set. Black has a beautiful pattern on his chest that really does look like Othello pieces. White doesn’t have much chest pattern, but the pattern on his shoulders is lovely. And for some reason, only the tip of Black’s middle toe is yellow. How does that work? With their long legs they look like they belong in a fashion magazine. Thanks for the interview, boys.
Thank you for watching Chicken Paradise! See you next time.