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| 8 healthy chickens coming to a new home |
You asked a few months ago what we needed in Haiti. I told you we needed $500 for new benches and chairs. You worked, and your worked, and you sent enough money to do that, finish the girls' dorm room, build a cabinet, fix some things around the house, AND buy some more chickens.
The chickens lay eggs, we eat the eggs, we give the chickens our food scraps, they lay more eggs, we eat the eggs, you see where this is going, right?
So the chickens were ready to move in at the end of March. They had to grow a little bit bigger before they could come live with our older larger chickens.
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| I'm so pretty! Watch me run! |
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| Chicken in the garden! |
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Mommy Clenide clipping wings
Jackson, our driver, went to pick them up. I went outside to take pictures for you, so you could see our eight, beautiful new chickens. See, here's a picture of them! But Jackson decided I needed to see them better for a picture. So he opened the lid, and two jumped out to make a run for their freedom. This one here was very proud of herself. See how she's running so straight and tall? she started to fly away, but my friend Phanor grabbed her. Feathers were flying everywhere, but when Phanor looked, all he had was a handful of feathers. The chicken ran to the garden to hide. Two men went in after her. She saw them coming and took off, flying up and over the wall, into the ravine on the other side.
Jackson searched the hillside leading to the ravine, climbing through piles of garbage. I stood on top of the wall, trying to see her and tell him where to go. We never saw her again. Mommy Clenide went inside to get scissors. She came back out and clipped the wings of the seven other chickens. They can't fly anymore, but they can sure lay eggs!
We hope that a family was blessed with a good, healthy chicken, just like we were blessed with seven
others.
Thank you for being part of this adventure with us.
With love,
Miss Koch and the Kiddos at Maison
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