Hi Friends! Now for something completely different… Yesterday I woke up and there was a chicken in our Brooklyn backyard. Our cats like to take a quick (or not so quick) walk out back each morning before their breakfast, sniffing and surveying the terrain of the patio and plants. Until recently, they would journey into other backyards, jumping up on fences, exploring other human territories, but now that they are getting older we supervise them and keep them in our garden only. Nishi tries to make a break for it all the time - three weeks ago she got stuck in our neighbor’s backyard and we had to get a 6 foot ladder from the basement, drop it over the 8 foot tall fence and coax her to climb it. She took each step with delicacy, alighted from the top of the fence, hopped off of our landlord’s gas grill and proceeded to trot in, eat her breakfast and snooze on her favorite chair as if nothing occurred.
Love, love this story!!! We have a lot of chickens in S. Richmond Hill, too! In keeping with the chicken recommendations, check out the documentary CHICKEN PEOPLE on Amazon, Pluto TV or YouTube. Fun documentary about show chickens and their owners.
I highly recommend reading William Grimes’s (former food editor at the NYT) book “My Fine Feathered Friend” about the stray chicken who moved into his city-backyard for a while. Did I give that to you years ago when I worked on it? xC
Going along with Charlotte on the chicken topic - I recommend Noah Kalina's Instagram account for his flock: @tiny_flock (he has a book out with photos of his chickens now as well)! His personal account @noahkalina and his newsletter (Noah Kalina) are also delightful.
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Love, love this story!!! We have a lot of chickens in S. Richmond Hill, too! In keeping with the chicken recommendations, check out the documentary CHICKEN PEOPLE on Amazon, Pluto TV or YouTube. Fun documentary about show chickens and their owners.
I highly recommend reading William Grimes’s (former food editor at the NYT) book “My Fine Feathered Friend” about the stray chicken who moved into his city-backyard for a while. Did I give that to you years ago when I worked on it? xC
Going along with Charlotte on the chicken topic - I recommend Noah Kalina's Instagram account for his flock: @tiny_flock (he has a book out with photos of his chickens now as well)! His personal account @noahkalina and his newsletter (Noah Kalina) are also delightful.