Happy’s new friends
Happy, good morning! Did you come out by yourself today? Lately our pigeon has been getting feisty — probably looking for a mate, dancing around and cooing. Adventuring all the way over here today? Good for you.
And Happy now has lots of friends. The story is a bit of a mystery: a friend of a friend had been rescuing pigeons, then became mentally unwell. Pigeons ended up flying freely around the house with droppings everywhere — far too many animals for one home to manage — and the pigeons kept having babies, so it turned into chaos. That’s how nine pure-white pigeons came to us.
They look like something out of a magic show. They range from about a year and a half old down to about a month and a half for the youngest. All are snowy white except one with a little speckled pattern. This is a chicken coop — you’re our guests. I let them out yesterday evening and they were so confident they never went back in, so this morning I let the chickens out with the pigeons still loose. I think it’ll be fine.
I’ve put a young pigeon in with Happy as a possible partner. The mood looks good, but it’s too early to tell. The pigeons seem to want to play, too — I didn’t know pigeons could be this friendly.
Kiwi
Hello, Kiwi! You’re caught on my headphones. Kiwi is the blind hen I introduced before. She still feels like a baby, so she snuggles up to me like this. She fell asleep… and woke up.
Papaya, and a new rooster house
The papaya is already as tall as my chest and getting wider and bushier. At this rate we may harvest this year! Thanks to stem training, the stem is nice and thick. A little nutrition: papaya for the chickens, grown with chicken manure.
Now, the site of a new project: bigger private rooms for the roosters. This grassy wall is our property line, so it can double as a wall, and I’d like to stack cages two or three tiers high all along here. On the other side is the playground you always see; I’ll extend its net so it encloses the rooster cages too, which will make it a little bigger. Step one: the ground slopes quite a bit, so I’m digging to level it. It’s only a small mound, but it has to be flat enough for the cages, and I need to pull out the tree roots or they’ll grow back forever. A lot of work ahead — I’ll do my best.
Thank you for watching Chicken Paradise Hawaii! See you next time.