It’s a Chicken Life

 Any day now, Mocha—my hen, whom is a McLean Hatch—will hatch off her eggs that she has been sitting on since the plausible date of 1 June. I was not expecting to have baby chicks in the coop so early on! I expected to have only a few by 2023. Nevertheless, my concerns about the eggs ‘not hatching’ are still there - and are worse than ever.. view  this blog  if you want to hear my random concerns. In order to prepare for the hatchlings, I have gotten baby chick supplies. If they happen to not hatch, the supplies will be in good use for future baby chicks. I think I will buy chicken treats just in case, or a baby chick diaper. OK, I may be a little over the top with the baby chicks; I am well aware. If they baby chicks hatch, I may name them after characters from All of Us Are Dead . Eh.. maybe names from another one of my favorite k-dramas? Either or works perfectly fine with me! Don’t question. Just go with it. My Roblox display name is literally DiaLikesKdramas . The fo...

 June is a wonderful month for humankind alike; but if you were a chicken, you may not be thinking of such a thought. My sumptuous hen Mocha, if you would dare say, is currently sitting on eggs that are to hatch some time around 21-22 June. However, a heat wave may stop her from hatching the baby chicks. In the summer of 2021, Mocha was once sitting on eggs, though a heat wave came—the temperatures reaching up to 88-9 degrees, I would say. Mocha found it to be too hot for her to be warming up eggs in a nesting box, so, simply, she got up and stopped sitting on them. Now, in the summer of 2022 with heat waves starting to form, I am awfully worried about Mocha. Possibilities are that, if she would continue sitting on the eggs no matter the heat, she would overheat - and if she doesn’t do that, I’m afraid she will leave the eggs again. In spite of that, this heat wave will reach up to 100 degrees. In order to provide care for the chickens during treacherous weathers, I will have to vi...

 Before I stop blogging for the day, I’d like to introduce you to my fellow flock. The list is in order of the  pecking order . Take note that I only have hens.    •  Beatrice “Queen B” ( Rhode Island Red )    • Hawk “Darlene II” ( Rhode Island Red  / McLean Hatch)    • Mocha ( McLean Hatch )    • Cinnamon (unknown breed)    • Marietta (unknown breed)    • Runt ( Phil Marsh Butcher ) I hope to make pages about each of my chickens!

  Hello . Worst has come to worst: Cinnamon, my beloved pullet, has gotten herself injured. I am unsure how such thing could’ve happened to her - she is very popular amongst the chickens, and there have been no direct predator attacks. I am beginning to think that the cause could have been due to Cinnamon’s multiple escapes from the coop, only this time she couldn’t escape since the coop now has several layers of netting.. she could have scraped her comb, which is the part that had gotten harmed, on the netting/netting hooks trying to escape. Another plausible explanation for her injury was a chicken fight. I did mention that Cinnamon was getting along well with the flock, but have they been getting along with her? No. When I was feeding the flock bread yesterday, I saw Hawk—my Rhode Island Red mix—chase Cinnamon around the coop, trying to get her away from the bread I was feeding them. It could’ve been Hawk that gave her the injury instead. In addition, Hawk is a stout, rotund chi...