Hot chicks

Chickens are so goofy! They're all gangly teens now, and the bolder ones will come check you out if you hold still for a while.

These gals are only a couple of months old, so at best they would start laying in November if artificial light were provided. But I doubt it will be, so we're looking at spring for fresh eggs.

I suspect a few will be lost to hawks, too, once they're allowed to roam outside their covered pen.

I splashed the hose in their pen to wash some of the debris out of their water dish and they all rushed over to scratch in the mud. Whereas the larger animals did not like being hosed down at all, despite the heat.
Which was good to know with regards to Dozer the bull (seen here, dozing). He's starting to get a little ... dominant. There was a tense moment when he started head-butting me a little too hard, and when I pushed him away, he pushed back and gave me a look like, "Oh yeah? Oh yeah?? You wanna start something?" I beat a hasty retreat!

But when I started the hose to top off the water buckets, the spray chased him off, so going back in the pen wasn't a problem. I suspect he'll be getting his own quarters soon.

Let's see how many hits this post gets from the "hot chicks" Googlers. I'm already No. 1 for squash porn (my sauteed zucchini blossoms). What they're really looking for, you don't want to know.