it's that time...

This hen loves to peck on the top of my boot, the snap on my pant leg or my shirt when I'm squatting down. I was squatting down when I took this picture...I turned around and guess who was pecking at my shirt.
One of the roosters up close.
I can't believe the chicks are 7 weeks old now...we only have 17 left. DH processed 7 roosters and 1 hen this morning. He was suppose to process all the roosters, but I picked up a hen by mistake, so there is one rooster left. I told him he better enjoy having 16 hens to himself for the week.

chicken treat

I was going to eat this pear after I sketched it, but it was way to mushy, so I gave it to the hens...they loved it. This is a really bad scan...I couldn't get a good picture with my camera either.

chicken study

I like how Petunia's comb flops to one side of her head...she looks like she's wearing some kind of a hat. Venezia journal 4x6...double spread...gouache and pentel pocket brush pen.

playing with gouache

I sketched this apple with a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen in my Venezia Journal (I love the paper in this journal) and then added gouache.

having the freedom to be a chicken

These chicks get to go outside around 6:20am and don't go back into their house until 6pm. They eat grass, bugs and whatever else interest them. They take dust baths, play together and soak up the sun. Chickens that you buy at the grocery store never get to go outside...they are cramped up in a building with thousands of others chickens...it is so sad. That's why we decided to raise our own chickens for food. We like to know what they have eaten, how they have been treated and how they are processed. They are 6 weeks old now and will we start processing them around Thanksgiving.

random friday

We have a couple of watermelons growing in our garden...the hens are going to love them!
Garlic.
Bell pepper.
Lettuce and carrots.

The chicks are now 5 weeks old...where does time go? This bottom picture is one of the roosters...he's not completely feathered out.