Well, if you last tuned in Friday, there’s a new chicken line-up at Bedlam Farm. Fran is doing well, recovering slowly, and Saturday we found Maude, the speckled gray and white dead in her roost while laying an egg. There are no no-kill farms. Life happens. So we have a new hen – Maria has named her Shirley Partridge. I’ve renamed the Swedish Flower Hen Freaky, because she is, and there is Shiva, the enormous white chicken. They are a good bunch, really, easy going, calm and industrious, as chickens ought to be. They will be fun to photograph, for sure, once they get used to me shadowing them. Fran goes in and out of the barn, rests a lot. We think she is doing well, although we have learned that you never really know.

Not in the real world of real animals.