Our New Home!

We just bought a house! Or, at least, we are in the midst of buying it. One of our favorite parts of the new house is the large yard! We are eagerly planning a chicken run, vegetable garden, and orchard of loquat, pear, lemon, and fig. Chris's mom has saved some loquat seeds for us and a fig tree from his grandmother, Sentina. We are excited to continue the Barabaria family tree line.



We will be moving in around June/July, after the roof and windows have been replaced. We will be doing quite a bit of work on the place (see pic). The biggest garden project will be removing the bamboo grove, which was trimmed down for the house sale. Our new neighbor told us that it has been growing here for 20+ years.



We have been making plans while we wait for the keys:



We will let you know when we have our weekend bamboo digging party!

The Chicken Dilemma

The White Longhorns have established their dominance over the recent arrivals and they are flaunting it! Chris and I have been calling them the "Bigs" and the "Babies."



The Bigs have recently been observed jumping onto the Babies' perch, pecking them off the perch, and diving into their elevated food dish. When we first put it in, this food dish went totally unnoticed by the Bigs for several days, giving the Babies their protein-rich chick mash. But now the Bigs spend their days eating their own layer grain and the Babies' mash.

We can distract the Bigs and put food out for the Babies which they cautiously approach. They get a few bites before they are startled back into their corner by the slightest movement. They are becoming anxious and flusterable young fowl.


(A brave Baby walks towards the arugula stuffed in the fence for her.)

As you may know, we are moving in about a month to our newly purchased home (!) on 9,000+ square feet, where there will be more space for a coop addition. But until then, the Battle of the Bigs and Babies continues...