Tag: chickens
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Let the animal decide
In the wild few living creatures survive an attack that leaves open wounds or broken bones. Wounded means weaker and weaker seldom flourishes. But our human instincts are to save a bird or save an animal that has been or is being attacked. Then our instincts are to then nurse them back to health. I…
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What you Missed on the Weekend
People tell me that I should take photos all in a day then make five posts from them and send them out like other content creators all scheduled to go out day after day. A good use of my time they say. Efficient use of my content they say. WRONG! Here is why: Things on…
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The Times they are A’changing
The barn swallows are gone. The mosquitoes are rare now. The flies are still here. The starlings are appearing in great droves called murmurs. And the spiders webs have arrived. Everyone racing to fatten up for winter. Not me. I am racing to fill the shelves and freezer. The pumpkins are harvested. The blush of…
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Sleeping on the Job
The Charlottes are getting through the Mad King’s Garden fast. Cleaning up and clearing out. Here they are fast asleep in the afternoon sun. It was very mild yesterday. And they have turned the soil in these raised beds into soft beds. When R comes again tomorrow I will get her to distract the Charlottes…
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How to Train your Hens to sleep in the Hen House
Chickens are creatures of habit. And they like their own beds. Which makes it easy to train hens to roost in the same building each night. In the early summer I round up all the winter runaways and shut them into the chook house. And I add all the new chickens . From the time…
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