MJ's little flock

[Shadrach]

View attachment 2762855

They're rather pretty.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Maybe? It's not chicken talk, it's clack clack clacking the beak. Like a human smacking their lips.

I have noticed when I'm petting them and they are squatting, if I pet or scrunch the feathers on their necks a bit they lower their heads and seem to beak the ground left and right. Sometimes I hear their beaks lightly snapping. I have had no idea what it signifies. I have also heard a little snapping while upright and walking but it's transitory.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I've been trying to get a photo of Mary's spurs and it's proving tricky but serendipitous.

View attachment 2813090

I know she is standing in wood chips, but Mary is a real low-rider! Look at those round pantaloons!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Did he go to school in the UK too?

I don't know his early history. I think the boys inherited the old farmhouse where the sax player I knew & played with was living/renting along with one or two others, so I heard about him through her, as Sam also lived there off and on too when he was East. She was originally from California and they may have had a connection from there. I don't know the history of the farmhouse, except Sam spent a period of time in the East working on this and that, while Joss was working full speed on the West Coast on his projects. The impression I got was that Sam was a brilliant creative but a sensitive type and not a "player," whereas Joss, though also creative, was much more driven and a climber, a go-getter, and maneuvered better within the corporate production scene.

So while Sam was here he gigged and wrote music, and wrote & produced the musical my DH played in. I thought the tunes were very good, the plot was fun and interesting and the orchestration was brilliant use of a chamber-sized group. I subbed for his usual bass player at one of his singer-songwriter gigs up in the Adirondacks.

 

[MaryJanet]

She's so gold in the late afternoon sun.

 

[MaryJanet]

They're rather pretty.

They've been in my last 5 kitchens not always as well-used as they are today.

 

[MaryJanet]

She's so gold in the late afternoon sun.

View attachment 2820931

She's such a lovely hen and Bob's new chicks have me all nostalgic for tiny Ivy. Isn't she cuuutte

No tail, just a pink stump where her feathers ought to be.

 

[RoyalChick]

I don’t remember seeing that picture oh teeny Ivy before. She is a very special lady and is my go-to defense for not learning about chicken breeds.
She is unique.
She is Ivy.

 

[MaryJanet]

I don’t remember seeing that picture oh teeny Ivy before. She is a very special lady and is my go-to defense for not learning about chicken breeds.
She is unique.
She is Ivy.

Ah! I fished it out of my bookmarks

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mjs-little-flock.1334809/post-22141275

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening MJ and everyone