Their world extends back and over to the Big Rim that looks down at the canal creek. Like the doe Goats forest, this too was dense with growth and not so much anymore. But still a fine and Beauty Full world of sun Light and shade. To one side, between their world and the world of SunnyRay and Jack Flash, a chicken yard was put in place. First small and then enlarged as the chickens grew. Most of the chicken yard was made safe with the deer fencing woven to the regular fencing and then draped in a canopy over the top. Two small spaces were hard to cover but we thought it wouldn't matter as they didn't know Vertical Flight. Wrong. in two days, Hey Hey was in with Nogal and Tenzen, A day later, Talkie. Only the rooster, Cuddles, remained in the original space. And so it went. Alyssia cut the netting and a small door in the wire fencing to make easy passage, not requiring flight up to branches. Nogal is enamored by them...with? them? , both. Enamored.
Tenzen remains pretty much in his own internal world. Yesterday he spent quite a bit of time itching his gums on/with a branch.
A couple days have passed and the rooster (who was supposed to be a hen), Cuddles, is nowhere to be seen. This may remain a mystery.
But for now, all is well here. Days go easy. There is room for every Thing they can imagine. We have time between now and September to decide who, if anyone, gets bred. To whom. We will go over the papers that remain in that Storage Place down the road. Track lineage and decide. It may be that we send DNA to UC Davis to be sure of genetics from that breeding long ago now, 6 years. Keep the herd Good. For the children.
Emrie stood at the doe gate, reaching in to Caroline, who took her small finger in her teeth and bore down, scaring her and scaring us....but seconds later, she put her hand in again. This time knowing . She pulled her hand away, just in time..just after the lips, before the teeth.
