This is an old thread but we’ve got that going on between our and our neighbours farm. Our neighbour’s Rottie sisters are have been visiting our (hopefully too young for love) Rough Collie pup. Cute mix though.
If you get a chance try Black Cherry tomato. You'll only need a couple of plants though as it is indeterminate and sooo prolific. It grows about 8 feet tall here in BC, Canada (or will crawl along the ground). It is a heirloom dark coloured very deep and sweet tasting cherry tomato. Great to...
...they cluster around you for a massage...you can't dig a hole without it filling full of chickens...you've taught your chickens to "jump up", "sit", "come here" ...you leave the bedroom window open a crack to hear if the chickens need you...
...and then you're telling a story about a chicken (as usual) and you forget that the chicken you're talking about was named after the girl you're talking to.
I heard a rooster crowing in the mornings last summer and started to miss our old chicken days. An ad answered and now we have a flock of Delawares. I got the address were they lived and it turned out our chickens were just a few miles up our road. The rooster I'd been hearing is now mine...
I've done that!
At the end of our lake there used to be an exotic poultry farm. On day helicopters and police cars were all over that place. Some time later on my way to work, I saw one chicken out in the abandoned barnyard. I talked DH to go and investigate. We peaked into the barn and...
Some Chick Flicks instead perhaps? YouTube has some real Oldies. If you prefer a book, I just finished reading The Egg and I by, Betty Macdonald, Free Ebook on Gutenburg Canada (the book the old Ma and Pa Kettle series was based). To find a book on Gutenburg just type title then Gutenburg Canada.
Does anyone have a recipe for rooster? He's probably not very tough as he seems to divide his time lounging under the heat lamp (tanning) or the water or the feeder (crowing) for the ladies. This morning when I went to gather the eggs he was sitting in the nest with a hen with egg on his face...
I guess that explains why the dogs just aren't hungry after they play in the pasture; and they'd Hoover up all the chicken poo out of the wheelbarrow if I'd let them. That high nitrogen poo can't be healthy.