Hello from Chicken Paradise — it’s me and Pen-chan. A slightly cloudy day today. I’ve just been to buy chicken feed, so now it’s time to haul it in.
Feed day and a scratch treat
One bag is 23 kg. In America they use pounds, so these are 50-pound bags, and I bought six. I also bought one bag of scratch grains as a snack. Scratch is a mix of corn, wheat and other grains left whole.
If I gave it all at once it would be scattered everywhere, so I put some into a bucket. We have lots of chickens, so this much is no problem. Scratch is a treat that should be less than 10 percent of their diet, but I thought it was fine to splurge once in a while. Everyone happily dug in, so I’m really glad.
Sowing seeds
Next: sweet peas, pansies and tomatoes. Pansies bloom in 65 days, and so do sweet peas. Tomatoes can be harvested in 69 days. The sweet peas went in first. Pansy seeds are very fine, so I scattered them lightly. Last came the tomatoes, sown in pots with soil I’d prepared in advance. The iron wire frame is called a tomato cage in America; it gives the plants something to climb. Here’s hoping for delicious tomatoes and pretty flowers.
Today’s Dolly
Dolly changes completely when there’s an appearance fee; today she was fairly normal. Some of the grass I gave her got stuck on her face and turned it green. While I was carrying the feed, she poked her head in where it was. She seems to love the smell of chicken feed and tries to eat it, but I’ve been told it’s bad for sheep — even that it could kill her — so I keep it away from her as much as I can. She still pushes her way in. And now she’s peeing again. Such a free spirit.
Meet Nazoko
Nazo means “mystery.” One day at school I looked into the chicken coop and found a chicken that had nothing to do with us. When I asked the teacher who it was, I was told someone had found the chicken and just put it in there for the time being. I was stunned. Please don’t put a chicken you’ve found in with other chickens.
We caught the newcomer and did a health check, and luckily there was no disease, so Nazoko stayed with us. These days Nazoko is very tame and gets along with everyone. Where this chicken came from is still a mystery.
Thank you for watching Chicken Paradise Hawaii. See you in the next video!