The Wild Chickens of Bobblehead Homestead

These four hens have been on their own since at least the end of July when the previous owner left. I don't think he did much to take care of them before then either as there is no coop of any kind on the property. I saw them briefly on August 2nd when I took possession of the property before going back to Illinois to sell my place there. But lo and behold, when I got back to the property last week, the chickens survived the last two plus months without any human help. Nature, man, nature.

(Those rafters are a good 15 feet high, I wanna know how they do that.)

I didn't see the chickens the first day back at the property, but the second day they wandered up but still kept their distance. The third day I put out three piles of chicken feed to try to lure them in closer to my home. It worked. The fourth day they were coming up by the front door, and the fifth day they were stealing the cat's food.

(I also caught that in the YouTube video below. 7 minutes.)

I had hoped to do more updates here on Steemit, but with an hour drive each way I just haven't been able to get stuff done on the property and keep up here. It'll get better once I'm able to spend the night at the property, which I hope happens soon. Thursday they finally came out and hooked up my electricity and today I finally figured out how to get the water well system operational. Tuesday they are supposed to come hook up my internet and land line (seriously, more about that another day).

Inside the mobile home I've gotten enough accomplished to get started and I'll be doing updates on that progress as soon as I can. This is all so exciting for me, but also so exhausting.

Bonus pictures, here's a friendly "neighbor" I met about 1/3 mile from my place. This horse came right up to the fence to greet me when I stopped to take a picture. I wanted to catch those horses in the same frame with Magazine Mountain in the background.