November 22nd (Sat.)
Yet another long weekend thanks to a national holiday on Monday, there are a startling number in Autumn it seems, not that I’m complaining.

This Saturday we went to a chicken farm with our friends. See the fun days out us we have in the country ! While other families go to Tokyo Disney land and Universal Studios we go to a Chicken farm with a large board saying they have 8500 chickens and free chicken shit if you bring your own bags !

Actually it was fun, we had a lunch which comprised solely of chicken and it’s by-products. Our friend kenjiru, exceeded my grandma’s recommendation of 1 egg a day by around 10 fold. At one stage I couldn’t see his face for the heap of egg shells heaped up on the table. He opted for the ‘eat as much as you can’ egg course ,which comprised of stirring in as many raw eggs as you like into as many bowls of white rice as you like. mmm..I passed on that. After such culinary treats we went to view the poultry, not all 8,500 but the few display birds they had in a pen you could enter.
We both felt glad we were going into duck rearing instead of chickens, even in this low intensity there were many with manky feet, bullied and pecked to semi baldness little critters and the pen was of course the kind of scorched earth grit that is the only thing can survive chickens. Eldan loved it however and didn’t want to part with his new clucky friends. I think he’ll enjoy having ducks which are far more loveable.