Yep, more chicken photos...

Yes, it's my chickens again, but better photos this time and you can see her pretty green feathers. I now have the flock that I was after. Today Donna and I took a drive a couple of hours North and picked up three more orpingtons. One has been badly picked on - chickens can get quite nasty and pull out all the tail feathers of other chickens and this is what's happened to her. She's now in her own cage in the coop with the others. This should give her tail feathers a chance to grow back - they will be fine milling around outside together, lots more space outside, and once her feathers have grown back, they will leave her alone. Mind you it wasn't my birds that did it to her, but she needs a chance to rest and recuperate. The breeders I got her from have two hundred chooks in groups of about twenty or so. The other two I got are fine - they are all much younger than my first two girls, but in a few months, with good food and care they'll all be a box of birds (pun intended lol)

The other collage is just some shots I took when we stopped in a little town called Culverden. Just because I could!

These photos are some of the pages of the birdcage album I did at Louise's class. I like how it turned out, but I'm reminded that I'm really not a mini album or off the page kind of a girl lol. Still I guess it's always good to push your boundaries a bit.

One week of term to go, can't wait for this term to finish. It's been full on and the kids are getting really tired with lots of 'she said, he said' dramas going on, which aren't the norm where we are. Lots of our families have had others staying with them because of the earthquake and it all takes it's toll for both families especially when you're a preschooler, so a couple of weeks off with a change to routine, usually a much more relaxed, not rushing to get out the door to school or kindergarten, means the kids come back refreshed and excited, ready to learn once again. And so do the teachers lol.

Oh I better go, Donna is on dinner duty and she's calling my name...

Have a great week.