Some of them we offer for free and are very clear on their age. Some get eaten. And a select few get to retire here and spend the rest of their days bossing the younger ladies around.
No, it's never easy. She was ready to go though, she said it was her time.
I write epic fantasy (dragons...
I too have been absent for far too long. Things have been crazy busy for a while. I had all of the run up to a book release earlier this spring, Then the garden went crazy this summer and the produce from it was trying to take over my kitchen (we were bringing in 130+ pounds of tomatoes from it...
Mine are doing great it in. We did extend it to make it bigger. I wish I could have a huge area for them, but we're in town so there is only so much space for chickens, geese, dogs, garden, and space for children to play.
Al is wonderful! I absolutely LOVE the Swedish Flowers. I'm going to have to get more of them when I make more room. Right now we have Black Star, Red Star, Partridge Rock, Buttercup, Polish, and the Swedish Flowers.
Wow, I guess it's been a while since I've been here but everything got really busy and some things got pushed to the back burner. All of the chickens wintered over well. We did put the heat lamps we use for new chicks in the chicken house over the nests during the coldest parts of the winter. I...
I love their color too. It's such a beautiful mix of cream, tan, and brown.
This is the first time in three years we've had much in the way of grass. The drought was so bad, all we had was some scraggly, crunchy weeds. But the rain came back this year and with it the grass and its so thick! I...
Thank you Here on the plains, with as much rain as we've had this year, the grass is really lush. So are the weeds but they seem to like the weeds too. In fact, they were so busy eating, I had trouble getting them to look towards me so I could get a pic.