I have to look for them, they're not always carried by Lowe's (home improvement), and never by Wally World. I found some last year, bought at least six, whatever they had in stock.
The house was built in 1970.
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'...