Remember these little guys?

They're not so little anymore. In fact, this morning, we heard their first adolescent, squeaky-voiced crows. John says we're within a couple weeks of slaughter.

In the meantime, we have a decision to make. Our house is set up so that our guest room and master bedroom are on opposite ends of the house. We have neighbors on our guest room side. In the past, we've moved crowing birds to the neighborless/master bedroom side of the house to prevent ill will, but the 4:30am crowing just outside our bedroom window sent us toting our pillows to the guestroom. I suspect, we'll be moving our bedside books to the guestroom for the next couple of weeks as we spare both ourselves and our neighbors the annoyance of early morning crowing.

Thankfully, the arrangement won't last more than a couple of weeks, since we're that close to slaughter.

I was amazed on our last slaughter day to hear a chicken crow with its head detached, but I've never heard one crow from the freezer, so it'll be all good in no time! :)