Our 2023 Chicken Paradise Hawaii calendar has finally arrived at our house too! So many of you said in the comments that you bought one — thank you so much. Somehow, ours was the last to arrive.
Flipping through 2023
Surprise: the cover is glossy! Hare-chan crowing happily on the front is all shiny. It’s printed beautifully. We ordered from a different place than last year, so this was my first look at it.
Heart and Star open the year. February is everyone’s photo album: from far away it’s a collage, and up close you can read each bird’s name and breed. March is the bantam team, April chicks, May roosters, June chicks again, and July is… bottoms. August is the ducks — they’re not this tiny anymore! (Still cute, though.) Then a straight-on face, and everyone eating. November is funny, because we don’t keep the pigeons with the chickens anymore, so that photo is a limited edition. And December is Pen-chan, somehow in Christmas colors.
The back cover has a beautiful blue sky and our logo. Last year’s had the printing company’s logo, so this one really feels like ours. To everyone who ordered: thank you, and I hope you have a happy 2023 with the chickens of Chicken Paradise Hawaii.
The pigeon nursery
Happy’s chicks are on day 11, very wary and attacking my hand. The white pigeons’ chicks are on day 19, with proper feathers filling in bit by bit. As Happy’s chicks open their wings, their patterns are showing: one looks just like Happy, the other just like Happy’s husband, their father. A baby Java sparrow also wandered into the pigeon house. Please go home to your parents!
The white pair’s chicks look much more like pigeons now. The one with the black beak is a real grump and threatens me, tiny as it is. The other has a pink beak.
Another white pigeon is sitting on eggs. More babies wouldn’t be a problem in itself, but I couldn’t draw a line on where to stop, so I gave her fake eggs. Then I found another nest behind an upside-down cage, probably Mr. and Mrs. Peep’s. They’re three years old and experienced parents; last time, when they lived in the chicken coop, the chickens broke their eggs and there was a big fuss. Since other chicks were already born first, I swapped theirs for fakes too.
And this is Seven, our black pigeon. Seven’s tail is growing in; still a slim youngster, but looking like a real pigeon and flying properly now. Not tame at all, though!
Thank you for watching Chicken Paradise Hawaii! See you in the next episode.