We bought and installed a used galvanized farm gate to keep hens in and hen hurters out. Four months and $210 later it has finally been finished except for a sign. A temporary tin sign reads Allis Chalmers, with the image of my favorite tractor ever. I wrote two pages about it so this is the...
Latching the coop at night, because my four red hens are utterly silent until they know it is me and then they make peaceful baby - like sounds as if to day everything is all right now.
I was raised on a chicken farm in northern U.S. I
committed a very bad sin as a child tired of chores. I threw some of the dirtiest eggs I was gathering so they would break and the hens would rush to eat the evidence.
So, I didn't like my chores and did not confess to my parents. In mass...