This is really the only picture I have of Leda, and I suppose there will be no others. Last Thursday she died. She was being a little aloof on Wednesday and by Thursday she was obviously very sick. We did what we could to help but by Thursday afternoon she had died.
It was kidney failure or something [...]
Not that long ago we got these new chicks. If you don’t recall their names, in red are Maple and Strawberry. In brown are Rory and Leda. Rory used to be Aurora until we learned that she was he. So Rory though has taken on leading his little flock. They stay with him and generally [...]
Today I spent sometime outside checking on the chickens. I was cleaning up some of the mess from the storms of the last few days which have left branches lying all over the yard when I noticed something strange about Aurora. She had a comb.
After closer inspection, she had a little red appearing on her [...]
This is now our 3rd go round on having some young chicks. These we bought from Nicole when we got Fred. We got 4 young chicks, 2 Ameraucana and 2 Rhode Island Reds. Above is Leda, named after Jupiter’s Moon. Because of the kind of fun and wild appearance of her sister they both earned space names, Aurora, [...]