From the roost, chirping:
Where’s the ramp? The chickens are
up before I am.
Looking through the egg door to the nest box (where the shredded paper is) and the roost (the pole that runs down the middle). The ramp is to the right, raised and lowered by the wire right down the middle of the picture.
The chicken coop with ramp lowered. Victoria is the brown chicken and Margaret and Anne are the black ones.
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Karin S. Wiberg 
Nice haiku–oh, I miss my chickens…had them when I was a child.
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We are just like new parents–can’t stop watching them, talking about them, writing about them–you will be tired of my chickens before you know it! 🙂
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Never. Did you see my poem on chickens, where I named them so my parents would not kill them for dinner?
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HAHAHA. That is great! Very funny poem. (Stupid rooster!)
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🙂 yes, and I didn’t name him on purpose…homicidal 8-year-old that I was.
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Nice digs for your chickens!
Hope this morning finds you well and chirping.
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We have the spoiled chickens, or as our neighbor says, “Romney 1% chickens”!
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Such a unique take on the prompt! Loved it! Sadly, I’ve never had chickens!
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They are just hilarious to watch!
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Fun haiku and backstory on Victoria, Margaret, and Anne. I never had chickens, but I did have a duck once. He grew to be quite enormous.
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It is funny how each one really has a personality. Margaret is a spaz! Anne is very calm (unfortunately she might be the lowest in the pecking order). Victoria is a little disdainful of everyone–unless you have oatmeal for her. 🙂
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Loved your haiku – as I look out my window at my own backyard urban chickens. Awesome coop!
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They are totally fun! Now we just need some eggs to start appearing…!
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That is the best part! Our chickens are prolific layers – we are at 6/day…helps keep the neighbours on side and quiet about the birds 🙂
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I think the young ones won’t start laying until spring, but the older one should be laying. We “adopted” her from a neighbor, so we are guessing that she is still getting comfortable–but this is the week! Or she might go in the stew pot… 🙂
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Don’t even think about cooking my chicken! Run Victoria! Run!
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She only runs if she thinks she will get oatmeal!
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What regal names! It’s quite charming waking up in the morning to gather their eggs.
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It will be charming when they start to lay some!
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What elegant names for your hens!
Sleep Behind Barred Windows
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And the next in line will be Catherine and Eleanor. Quite royal. 🙂
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Nice chicken inspired write
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Thanks! Today I was up before they were. And now I want to go back to bed…
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I enjoy this evocative haiku–chickens as chickens and chickens as symbols chirping their need to start the day.
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Thanks. They are very amusing, and it surprising how much we like to hang out with them. 🙂
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Beautiful coop/run!! Are you in a 4 season climate or more temperate. My chickens don’t like oatmeal unless it is Gerber’s baby oatmeal with mashed Gerber’s meat sticks!! What else do you feed yours? I need more ideas!!
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Thanks for the kind words! It is movable Catawba coop (http://catawbacoops.com/). We are in Raleigh, NC, so there’s not much winter–we anticipate they’ll be out the whole year–and probably summer is more of a concern since it is so hot. Our chickens eat plain old raw oatmeal. We have had the girls only for a few weeks, so have not discovered too many other things they like (the little ones are still on baby chick feed). Check out http://www.backyardchickens.com – there is a whole page about things chickens are likely to eat. Good luck!
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I’ve only had mine since mid-August. I feel the same as you – I’m just so in love with my chickens already! Tks for the backyardchicken.com referral. I use it frequently!! Love your haiku’s, btw…
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Thank you!
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A very clever coop. We used to have a long cord that ran under the roof of the coop, across a passage and out of the wire gate to the pen, so that we could pull up the shutter which stopped them going into the run at night. Two nestboxes were cunningly cut through into the adjacent feed shed, so that we could lift a hinged flap to get the eggs. And all without getting our feet muddy. I miss keeping chickens, even though they must be about the stupidest of God’s creatures.
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LOL. Stupid they certainly are! Very amusing though. There are a lot of backyard chickens in this area–so many that there is a “Tour de Coop” once a year. There are some ingenious coops out there.
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