12 December 2010 - Snow Falls on Chicken Universe

This morning the chickens discovered a strange white powder blanketing One Prairie Outpost. Only Bird-seed Genny was brave enough to confront the snow. She, a Black Australorp so named for her scavenging expeditions first thing each morning to the wild bird feeders hanging behind our house in order to clean up any seeds the cardinals, blue jays, juncos woodpeckers and others have scattered to the ground. However, today’s steady winds and deep drifts halted her journey and I had to perform a rescue mission. Since then, no birds have dared venture out of the coop, leaving the desolate chicken yard shown here.