Tree Birds... The little red Chabo and the round brown hen have been finding places for the night outside the cages for some time now.. Just recently the lighter brown young JidokKko has started also. It seemed to cramped for more than two birds to be in the little hand-made dog-house on the big night-cage roof so I would grab one and put them in the night cage while closing them all up for night-time safety.. I guess this rooster is the most adamant about disliking the transplant.. I've seen this dark-necked rooster seeming to be trying to eat the little gray Nagoya Kochin chick.. That a young Silky Hen was able to hatch one of the eggs from the supermarket, and egg with no indication of having been fertilized... It's miraculous and it will be fascinating to see how the little chick develops.. So I was thinking the next soup and BBQ gathering might feature dark-necked JiDokKo rooster, but now that he's sleeping up in the tree I'm tempted to keep him around in the hopes of developing a strain of low-maintenance tree birds I can let loose in an orchard somewhere and only have to visit every couple days or so... I think that's what Masanobu Fukuoka did over in Ehime Prefecture.. When I read that decades ago I was wondering what a "Jidori" bird was: Japanese local heirloom birds.. or their revived strains at any rate...

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