Tag: chickens
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The Two-headed Monster
When we were kids the seats in the cars were bench seats- you could sit four skinny people comfortably across the front seat. (Bucket seats are such a kill-joy). Lovey-dovey couples would sit close together – usually the fella driving and the girl jammed as close as she could get, thigh to thigh, knee to knee. We were small…
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Gardening Chooks
You have not seen much of Mr Flowers lately, but I have – him and all his wives up on the veranda. This year I decided to employ the meat chickens as gardeners. With this endless rain, combined with the terrible heat earlier in the month, the garden is officially out of control. Some areas…
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Farm Sex
I don’t mean to be provocative with that heading but really poor Carlos the Tiny was a busy boy yesterday. Lady Astor came into heat (I was advised by the vet not to give her a break as she would put on too much weight then it is harder to get them bred again –…
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Calmer
Hopefully today will be calmer. I still have a couple of teenagers and their baby staying for another week or so. But the Frenchmen and I are hoping for a calmer day today. Something nice and ordinary would do the trick. We got all the hay in yesterday morning. Stacked up into the barn working…
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Heat Exhaustion
We had three of the meat chickens die of heat exhaustion yesterday. They had water, they had shelter but I was off the property for a few hours buying supplies, then we treated ourselves to lunch and did not see them go down. By the time we had got home the wind had turned and…
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