<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34120975</id><updated>2011-04-21T19:39:59.642-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chi Chicks</title><subtitle type='html'>A photographic history of the Chi-chicks and their progress.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chichicks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34120975/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chichicks.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>The Llamalady</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03144314480215398050</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34120975.post-115782507470494347</id><published>2006-09-09T10:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-17T13:11:31.890-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Chi-Chicks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/1600/ChickenPen1small.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/320/ChickenPen1small.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;This is a photographic history of the chi-chicks but for now I am simply going to post a few pictures and a large photo of the feathers for you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;Love,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;Lala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/1600/Feathers1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/400/Feathers1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;These feathers are gathered as they are shed. They are the same kind of feathers you would buy in an arts and crafts store with one &lt;strong&gt;big&lt;/strong&gt; exception. I gather these as they naturally fall off of our birds. Not one bird is or ever was killed for it's feathers out here. I am not asking for any money for them except perhaps the cost of postage if you are willing to pay it. I just hate for so many beautiful feathers to go to waiste while people are buying them in stores to create their artwork. These are especially great for Native American crafts. I can't promise there will be enough feathers to go around but I will be glad to save and send them when ever they do shed off. I will say that these feathers are clean of any mites or anything of that sort.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;Here are a few just fun photos of the Chi-Chicks for the folks who watched them grow up through the Shirley boards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/1600/ChickenHeaven.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/320/ChickenHeaven.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;For those who aren't familiar with the Chi-Chicks, they arrived here at 1 day old and from then until now I have tried to instill their feed and water with positive energies for growth, health, protection and happiness. It was just a little experiment for my own understanding. I compared their growth and progress to all the other flocks I have raised. They did seem to grow faster with fewer problems and a lot fewer losses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;They have several separate pens to explore and search for seeds and insects besides the feed and water that is always available to them in their barn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/1600/ChickenPen2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/320/ChickenPen2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/1600/ChicksJuly1st6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/320/ChicksJuly1st6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#33ffff;"&gt;This is a baby picture. I don't have these photos in any particular order.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/1600/ChicksJuly1stforBrit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4059/2748/320/ChicksJuly1stforBrit.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34120975-115782507470494347?l=chichicks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chichicks.blogspot.com/feeds/115782507470494347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34120975&amp;postID=115782507470494347' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34120975/posts/default/115782507470494347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34120975/posts/default/115782507470494347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chichicks.blogspot.com/2006/09/chi-chicks.html' title='The Chi-Chicks'/><author><name>The Llamalady</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03144314480215398050</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
