Category: Barn
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Naturally Hatched Chicks
And I thought I was the only one with chicks in the Late Summer. But chickens have other ideas. This mama hen was wandering about the big pig’s weedy garden. Her newly hatched chicks scratching about in their (the pigs) dinner spot. It did not feel safe. But there you are. As I write this…
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Empty Nest Syndrome
Yes. The little bird has flown or rather the little birds have flown. Plural. Yesterday afternoon they were gone from their bread basket nest. I was sure that one kept flying close to my head as I worked in the evening. I fancied that it might have been Jonathan Livingston Swallow who I put back…
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Get back to bed, she said
You are too young to fly! And Miss C lifted the little bird, for the fourth time that day, off the floor and placed it back into it’s pretend bread basket nest. Little bird glared at Miss C and waited for her to leave the chook house full of savage chickens before hurling himself back…
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No politics here. Just life. Just farming. Just me.
This is a politics free zone. Isn’t that a relief. The frenzy driven, spurious, destructive, puerile, gossipy politics that keeps bleeding into our lives makes me want to run and hide. I need to stand witness, but not here. Not on our farm blog. Even saying this is a politics free zone is a statement…
The Kitchen's Garden 