Neighbor Nuisance!!

So my two chickens, Mike and Pip, ate currently 9 months old. And Pipette loves to "coodookoo" a lot. He does it in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, midnight and at the break of dawn. Which is okay...i mean thats their nature right?
and also Kolkata has a lot of crows, and other birds, so when those birds come to our terrace for a meeting or something, Pipette has to tell them that Its HIS territory, so how dare they come.

So yesterday this awful neighbor of ours starts screaming at us and picks a fight coz apparently her husband was unable to sleep last night because of pip's coodookoo-ing and she actually threatens to get rid of my chickens!! :O

She is all "have you taken permission from the cops and blah blah' and that she'll go to the police for not letting her sleep at night and apparently you are not allowed t keep pets in apartments. So we called up the police and asked them if its so and they just laughed it off..!

Stoopid crazy lady. Well now she doesnt make a peep, becoz she knows how wrong she is. I think she wanted to eat them up, basically.

And the more she screams, Pip screams too. So we told her to shut up and put cotton ear plugs or get pet chickens herself.

God, I have never had good neighbors!!

^ so that's is Pipette. My leghorn rooster. My baby.

Para-para-Paradise.

Thank God i went to the terrace to feed my two chickens at the right time, otherwise I would have never been able to see this:

Isn't it beautiful?

Thank you Micro and Pipette. xoxoxoxox

Fighting toddlers (with arthritis)!

By the time Micro and Pipette were like, 4 months old, they were very energetic and naughty, especially Pip. Micro was the small innocent and slow girl who had developed arthritis because of the cold, but Pip was perfectly fine, eating, jumping and sometimes even hitting and standing on Micro. And then the poor thing that Micro is, she'd scream and try to run away but because they were in a cage at that time, he'd succeed in irritating her.

One night i actually had to keep her separate so that she could sleep in peace. Pip was being a total jerk! And then the next morning i had to tell dad to tell our carpenter to build them a bigger coop. The cage was becoming too small for them. And it also meant that i had to clean their poop filled cage every single day. The bigger your chicken, the bigger their poop.

I'd feed Micro garlic and some extra food and sometimes put mustard oil and turmeric on her swollen up feet (because they relieve pain) but it wasn't of much help. It did help, but Pip was smarter.

One night it was so cold that i even gave them a brandy in a bowl, with some warm water. Yep! And they did like it...they slept soundly that night. Or maybe they were drunk...I don't know ;)

Chickens are quite prone to arthritis. Its kind of genetic because it means that the chicken will sit and eat and eat and become fat and meaty. You'll know if your chicken has arthritis if:
1. She is walking slowly or not walking at all.
2. She is limping.
3. Her feet is red and swollen and warm.
4. If you put pressure on the affected feet, she'll react to the pain.

There is not much you can do, really. Just make sure your chicken is warm and is eating warm foods and if its sunny outside, let them soak in the sun for a while.

Micro is 9 months old now and she is perfectly okay, though she is a little slow and her fingers or whatever you call them is crooked. But its normal. As long as she is fine.

xoxo

That's them (about 2 months old). They both used to fit in both hands. now Only their head fits in our hand. <3

First bath!

So I just discovered that my babies are actually Leghorns and not broilers. But more on that later...

I remember Mike and Pip's first bath. Hahaha, no i dont think chickens usually take baths but well, these two are city born ;P
They were both very extremely dirty so we decided to give them a nice warm bath. so we take them to the terrace and we take this bucket with warm water (make sure its not too hot or too cold) and we put some turmeric powder (Indians love turmeric and it also kills germs) and we take them one by one and while my sister held one of them in her hands, i slowly poured water on them and wiped their tiny feathers and little butts! And all the time they were screaming like we were going to eat them up!

After the bath, we put them back in their cage. Both of them seemed to be very mad at us. Pip would scream at us, while Mike would turn her head as if she wont look at us, she is so mad, and her tiny fuzz bottom would be towards us. So adorable!!!!

And then we brought some garlic! yeah, its their favourite...they love garlic. So waving some garlic in front of their nose did the trick and in a minute both of them forgot what they were mad about.

That was their first and probably last bath. We realised they dont take baths.. haha!

Cuddled, in winter <3