Saying Goodbye...

The time has finally come to say goodbye to Nashville. The Rooster and Mother Hen are moving to a new coop in Knoxville.

But not to worry, The Ladies have found a new home (and new names, we hear) in an upscale carriage house. That's right! The Ladies are still Nashville Chicks through and through.

And here's a picture of Mother Hen checking out the new digs. As you can see, the new coop is much snazzier (and Mother Hen is much more motherly).

To get a fuller appreciation of the new home, check out the 360-degree view below...

Nugget is a...

Mother Hen and The Rooster went for their 20-week ultrasound yesterday. Nugget is developing well and is on track to be a big baby. We also learned Nugget's sex, clues to which are visible in the picture at left. If you're not sure on how to read the ultrasound, the movie below should clear things up...

Smart Chickens!

Have you ever sat on your back porch and wondered just how intelligent those chickens really are?  Apparently, some of them are pretty smart...

Introducing... NUGGET!

Mother Hen and The Rooster are proud to announce the impending arrival of a new addition to the family--Nugget!

Scotch Eggs!

One of the best things about having chickens is that our friends find it necessary to purchase any galline artifacts they run across in their daily lives. For example, take this Chicken Top Hat and Scarf, meant to decorate the top of any bottle you happen to have in the home.

In our home, this amazing craft decorates a bottle of scotch, making this a prime example of "Scotch Eggs." If you don't yet know the beauty that is scotch eggs, we'd love to have you over some time when we've got the deep fryer out. For now, this is as close as we're getting.

Galline Fashionistas

If you don't know already, industrial egg production is pretty awful. One of the common effects of chicken factories is that the chickens lose their feathers from the cramped cages.

So what's the answer to bald chickens? Knitting them sweaters, of course.

(If you Image Google "Chicken Sweater" you'll get plenty of other examples.)

Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles!

The Rooster was in LA this weekend for a conference and while there made it out to Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles. The name says it all. He ate a piece of fried chicken and a waffle. The food was pretty amazing, living up to the standards of a member of Nashville's informal Thursday Fish and Hot Chicken Club.

For a musical introduction to Roscoe's, check out this YouTube video made by one of Mother Hen's friends.

Chickens in NYC!

This past weekend, Mother Hen and The Rooster travelled to the big city for a short vacation and to see the Broadway production of Equus. The play was unbelievable, as was the cheesecake at Junior's afterwards, but the climax of the weekend gallinity was a gift from our friends with whom we were staying. 

They have recently returned from living in Singapore and brought with them a t-shirt for Mother Hen that shows the entire life history of a chicken. Eggs-cellent! For another view of our weekend, check out our friend's blog post on the weekend.

The Saudi Arabia of Chicken

Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Lobb, Director of Communications at the National Chicken Council, about the shortage of chicken wings currently afflicting our country. Included in the interview was the breaking story that the United States indeed have a strategic chicken reserve.

We suggest contacting your local Galline Representative and encouraging them to support the release of chicken wings before this Sunday's Super Bowl.

The Ladies have indicated they hope this shortage will break America of what they consider to be a disgusting habit.

Psycho Chicken...

I heard this song this afternoon on WRVU, 91.1 FM. Does anyone else have some good galline parodies? There have to be more out there...

The Chicken Whisperer

Mother Hen's mom forwarded a new story about chickens in her local paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

If we had known we could turn this whole experiment into a money making venture, we might've started earlier. With a chick costing around $2.50, you can guess what the profit margins would be when selling to soccer moms.

Chickens in the News

So what does it take to have an article written about you in The USA Today? Apparently, five chickens in your backyard. Maybe we'll add another hen in the Spring and see if any reporters show up. Until then, check out these Backyard Ladies on the West Coast. 

(Thanks to Mother Hen's dad for sending us the link!)

The Ladies and Vaseline

Tonight marks a new first for The Ladies, which means our first blog post in quite awhile. Nashville is looking at some record low temperatures and so we had some friends over after dinner to help us prep The Ladies for zero degrees. As you can see from the pictures, we're all dressed for the weather while out on the back porch. At that point, we were hovering somewhere around fourteen.

The part of the story you would expect is that we put The Ladies in Big Sister's former crate on the porch and covered them with a couple of warm blankets.

The part you might not expect is what we had to do for the combs. Each of The Ladies got a nice covering of petroleum jelly to make sure frost bite doesn't set in.  We'll see if they last the night.