1. Do Dyed Chicks Grow into Chickens?

It’d been a month since I’d begun living on this nameless mountain.

The name’s Shohei Sano—twenty-five, bachelor. No interest in dating. No desire to get married.

The vegetation on the mountain had begun to grow rapidly thanks to the increasingly warm weather.I wish I had some of that energy too.

Well then, the first thing I needed to do was deal with all the overgrown grass. I brought out the electric lawn mower and got to work outside the house.

And I mowed.

And mowed.

And mowed.

But, as usual, there seemed to be no end in sight. Then again, because the chickens grazed around this part of the property, the effort didn’t go to waste.

I had started growing vegetables too. I’d gone over to what used to be the fields, pulled out the weeds one by one, tilled the soil, and planted the seeds I’d been given. Now that the crops were established, I knew they’d be a prime target for insects if I didn’t properly tend to them, so I tried out a recipe for organic pesticide I’d once seen an idol make on TV. While I was preparing it, the smell became so overpowering that the chickens got angry at me.Sorry about that, guys.

Oh, right. Speaking of the dyed chicks I’d bought at the festival—they were fully feathered now, and the color had worn off. All three had grown into healthy chickens.

Kind of big chickens, though. Big enough to make you think,Are chickens even supposed to grow this large?

I found some info on the internet about a breed of large chickens called Brahma, but eventhose weren’t this big. I’d only had these chickens for a month, and they had already grown over half a meter tall.I measured them yesterday.