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As many of you already know, my husband and I have tons of wild chickens on our property. I set out some containers for them to drink clean water. They will happily and frequently drink from the aluminum container, but the ceramic one that is white on the outside and black on the inside they don’t really drink from. Is this because of the color? Or how the color reflects the grass or dirt that sometimes falls in due to wind? Those things don’t seem to bother them with the aluminum one.

Title pretty much explains it, but we moved to Cayman Brac at the beginning of the year and were bummed to not find any of the nation’s official bird when we visited the parrot preserve. Fast forward 5 months later and my husband runs into my home office yelling “there’s parrots in our tree!”

I was very confused but came outside and there were at least SEVEN of the cayman Brac parrots hanging out in our tree, squawking loudly and just hanging out! We asked the locals and apparently they love the almond trees and will typically spend time there during these next few months. It was so awesome to experience even though they are hard to identify (they blend in almost flawlessly with the leaves!). Couldn’t post both a photo and a video so here’s a screenshot of four I got in one go!

Woke up this morning and looked out my window to find this momma with some little tiny golf-ball-sized babies 🥹😍

It’s been almost two months since we’ve seen baby chicks so it was such a treat to see them!

Tonight I had just May and her adopted flock of 5 show up and hang around for a while. There’s another younger group of 5 who have also started to wander around without their Momma. Here is also a close up photo of May. I get teary-eyed thinking of how little she used to be when I first met her 🥹

Moved to Cayman Brac, and they have chickens like the US has squirrels. Can’t afford to build any kind of chicken pen or buy feed right now, but I’m working up to it. In the meantime, I will on and off feed them rice, corn, sourdough bread crumbs, tortillas scraps, and some other mixed veggies. So far I’ve got one chicken (don’t really know if it’s a girl or boy but I call her May) who started hanging out as a baby and now is the only chicken who actually comes up to me and will sometimes eat out of my hand. I also put out water for them that I try to refill a few times a day.

First five photos are how it started (Rodney the rooster, his mistresses Mary and Martha, and little Miss May). All the rest are how it’s been going (Rodney’s keep bringing around other ladies and LOTS of them being babies of all stages from teeny ones to gangly teenagers!).

May is the little chick from the first few photos; she is the larger black chicken with the white stripe on her wing in the third from last photo. I’m assuming it’s a “she” because I don’t see any rooster developments, but what do I know 🤣 She is a loner mostly, though she adopted a group of about 4 teenage chickens recently. Otherwise, Rodney and the other Moms tend to push her away when they’re all feeding and she starts to make weird squawks that sound like she is annoyed or sad or upset 😢

It’s been five months and I wish the other chickens would warm up to me but they still scatter if I make any sudden movements. However if I sit on the front steps after throwing the food, they will come out after a few minutes and eat.

(EDIT: The pallets you can see are an extremely early attempt to MAYBE one day make a DIY chicken coop. For now it’s a little shelter for scared chicks 😅)