Thank you. I decided to get the Kindle edition, it was only $1.99. There are a bunch listed for sale on eBay for around $15. I can upgrade to paper if I like it well enough.
Yes, he's been hiding a lot, but the chaos that the cockerels were instigating had to be stopped, and so the others were rehomed. The hens are much calmer now.
The good news, of sorts, is there's a second hatch about 6 weeks younger, and I will probably keep one of the boys as a back up...
How incredibly frustrating. Take heart, it's been my experience that bumper crops of squirrels are followed by years of population drops. There won't be enough food to sustain them all. And road kills will increase as well.
Removed the plastic fencing and set up the trellises yesterday.
I picked more beans Friday, put them in the refrigerator until I could freeze them.
Today I pulled carrots, though not all, about half. I sliced and froze them, and the beans.
Four bags of sliced carrots and FIVE more bags of...
Around the coop today...
Zacchaeus!
I pulled carrots this morning, brought the greens into the run. Even the May chicks were grabbing beakfuls, everyone but Zack. I took a couple carrot greens stalks over to where he was perched, on the back of my chair. He watched me carefully, not sure about...