Feeders have been slow until earlier this week. I've seen Brown Thrashers and Pine warblers eating the peanut butter suet. Everything is now filled up, ready for an unseasonable cold forecast for Sunday evening.
Cabbage
Carrots
Turnips
Collards, Chinese cabbage, looseleaf lettuce
Second bed of carrots. These were the ones I planted around milkweed that I finally pulled.
Those are collards in the back.
Thank you. Zaccheus was hatched in April 2024, so he's not quite 2. His son, Jacob, was hatched in July 2025. I like how they seem to be sharing guardian duties.
Here is an interesting article about different egg labels ("cage free", etc.) in the USA, scroll down past the advertising links for...
I've been preoccupied with helping my new dog settle in, and haven't been paying as close attention to my flocks the past couple weeks.
And so I did a double-take today. I had two Speckled Sussex roosters almost identical! Neither had a leg ring, so Jacob's must have broken off.
Zaccheus'...
Christmas play and gathering at my church this evening.
I made deviled pullet eggs, filled in the center of the platter with lettuce fresh picked from the garden, and pickled eggs from my bantams.
I was sitting in my recliner just now, contemplating going to bed, when I thought I heard one of my roosters crowing. I went to the door, opened it to hear better. Yes, one of them, sounded like Silas, was crowing over and over and over.
I slid on a jacket and my mud shoes, put on my headlamp...