Good morning from Chicken Paradise Hawaii. Another blue sky today. It’s so hot outside that nobody wants to come out — the chicks are sunbathing in the field instead.
Roll call for the younger chicks
Someone in the comments asked me to introduce this younger group of chicks, so here they are, one by one. (Nobody wants to be on camera.)
The big orange one is everyone’s favorite, Marron — 100% a rooster now. He’s eating dirt… The second oldest has changed color a lot, but believe it or not, this is Chako. Not Chako-chan anymore — Chako-kun! Why is everyone a rooster? His comb has come in, and he has a fun pattern that looks a little like a quail’s.
This one is about the same age as Marron but doesn’t have a name yet; we call him Kuro-chibi (“little black one”). He wasn’t growing, which worried me, and lately he’s suddenly gotten a little bigger. Still, his skeleton doesn’t seem to be developing well, and his head is very small. He doesn’t look like he’ll live a long life, but for now he’s flat out in the sun, still doing fine. Oh no, he got stepped on!
The black one is Ponyo, who I’ve introduced before — a chick picked up and protected by an old schoolmate of mine. Next, with a pattern that’s pretty ordinary for a chick in Hawaii, is Banana, picked up by a friend of a friend of a friend. His brother is the white one. The people who found him called him Purin, but we already have a Purin, so since he’s white, he’s now Cloud. He’s a bit dirty — they all march right into the food, so they get grubby fast. Cloud is probably a rooster too. In fact, they’re all roosters here except Kuro-chibi. Cloud gets so wrapped up in what he’s doing that he gets lost, then yells until he finds the group again.
Kirin, about 70 days later
Do you remember Kirin, who was thrown away in terrible shape? Since his rescue I’d been nursing him in a room of his own, and today I let him out into the playground for the first time.
When I rescued him, his eyes looked lifeless. He was blind in one eye, had a broken leg and was covered in wounds. Now he crows “cock-a-doodle-doo” like any rooster. He limps a little from the aftereffects, but he seems to love scratching freely in the dirt — and he kicks harder than any of the other chickens. About 70 days after his rescue, he’s this healthy.
Thank you for watching Chicken Paradise Hawaii! See you in the next video.