Apparently same sex families are a poultry possibility. Keep it under your hat, I don't want anyone trying to censor my henhouse.
A couple moves from the big city to the countryside and starts a small farm...wait, you've heard this premise before? What? Trite? Hackneyed? But, I have goats. Really cute pictures of tiny baby goats. And cheesemaking recipes. We slaughter our own pigs and cure our own bacon! Well, that's in the master plan, anyway. Just read it, you'll see.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
My Two Mommies, Chicken Edition
Well it appears that two female chickens can partner up and both be mommies to the same brood. It's been a few days, and both hens are still in full-on mother hen mode. The babies have not yet exhibited any preference for one hen over the other and will run under whichever one is closest to them. Both hens spread their wings and shelter the babies; both hens do the special "food cluck" to tell the chicks where the grain is; and both hens will try to attack me when I get too close.
I say you have a small, dignified commitment ceremony, followed by a mockery of all things holy.
ReplyDeleteIt takes a village to raise a child - it must take a Coopage to raise a chick....smart ladies - dividing the labor of child rearing - many days I wished for a wife...and have a husband
ReplyDeletewhat are you talking about?! A commitment ceremony IS holy!
ReplyDeleteactually "scratch" that (get it, chicken scratch) i say you have a marriage ceremony. Screw "The Man" his stupid laws can't touch your farm! Wait, I sound like a republican. And a mushy liberal.
ReplyDeleteIt CAN be, sure. If you're not, you know....
ReplyDeleteChickens.