Before I say chickens are timid creatures, let me first hand it to them: they are resilient and brave little creatures too. Just hours old, tiny (the size of an egg), shipped cross-country in a box, handled by giants of another species – they manage it amazingly well. The spark of life, the impulse to…
Category: reflections
Of Crossbows and Man-Cages, or Having the Right Equipment
Of Crossbows and Man-Cages, or Having the Right Equipment. There are some neighbors, Jim and Pat, whom we’ve kind of liked from afar for a while, and finally got to spend some time with today. Jim is a pretty cool guy. He heads up a group of bow hunters who have special permission from the…
Collective (Chicken) Consciousness, or What I Learned from Sal and Dominique
Chickens do what other chickens do. They go where other chickens go. I believe they think what other chickens think.