Baby Greens

Week of May 20th

Lucy's brooding trance has brought forth to the farm five new chicks with more eggs waiting to hatch over the next day or so. Paternity is loose with our little flock of two roosters and five hens, each hen making a contribution to a clutch of a dozen eggs which Lucy commandeered twenty one days ago. It's likely big, magnificent ,handsome Tipsy a Buff Brahma -Black Cochin cross is the insoucient father. Greyjack, his feisty bantam lesser rival who seems to know his place in the pecking order was probably rebuffed and sidelined by the ladies. His spirit though remains strong as he continues to crow his second string rooster head off perched atop the greenhouse. Other possible genetic mothers in the flock include Pearl the white Leghorn, Minute past Midnight the black Araucana, Sunset the R.I. Red, and Freckles the Buff Rock. Any kids out there with a knack for naming, please send in your offerings as the chicks develop in the next few months and we take more pictures of each of them.