Dang SQUIRRELS! They are decimating my pear crop! I think there's an entire dray (squirrel equivalent of flock) knocking the green pears down and chewing them up.
This is the first year we've had a really heavy fruit-bearing season, and I'm not sure I'll see any fruit grow big and ripen.
And because I can't post baby pictures without them, here's my snuggy-wuggy Silver Gray Dorking, Elly Cuddles:
I am excited for the Elkhart Co. Fair too! Really hope I get to go, but may not be able to until the 25-26. I have to say 4-H has the coolest projects for kids, and yours choose great topics! Such a neat organization the more I learn (I wasn't ever in it, but wish I was!).The Elkhart Co. Fair begins on Friday! We take our rabbits Thursday afternoon and then the fun begins for the next 10 days. Our rabbits are kinda molty right now and probably won't show very well, but the kids aren't too concerned about that. They care more about the rabbit ambassador contest and how their other projects will do. They just have fun showing the rabbits -- glad your kids have had fun with their goats too. It's a great lifeskill to learn -- that you don't always have to be the best to make it worthwhile! My husband gets to do rabbit barn overnight supervision Friday night. He's done that every year for 7 years now. We always get a report about how early the roosters began crowing in the poultry barn next door! Sunday is free admission day for anyone who wants to come
And...project check in for 4-H projects was yesterday and we are DONE! Except for Chloe getting her Rabbit Illustrated Talk prepared. We had a sewing project that was completed last week 45 minutes before judging ended (Yikes!) and a poster finished yesterday at 3:00 pm, just a couple hours before check in ended. WHY do the kids do that????? It drives me nuts! The kids did pick very interesting topics for their rabbit posters this year. Benji did Backyard Rabbit Treats, talking about all kinds of fruits, veggies, weeds, herbs, trees, shrubs, grasses, etc. that are safe for rabbits to have in small amounts as occasional treats. Chloe's was Food for Freedom: How Rabbits Helped Win the War. It was about the Food for Freedom program the government had during WWII, when, due to food rationing, people were encouraged to have victory gardens AND raise backyard rabbits and chickens as a way to supplement their food. The government even published pamphlets telling people to raise rabbits and how to do so. Maybe those of us who are fighting their local ordinances about allowing chickens and rabbits (rabbit people are having some of the same code enforcement issues) should get some "ammunition" from the 1940s!!
Dang SQUIRRELS! They are decimating my pear crop! I think there's an entire dray (squirrel equivalent of flock) knocking the green pears down and chewing them up.
This is the first year we've had a really heavy fruit-bearing season, and I'm not sure I'll see any fruit grow big and ripen.
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Not a trick, really. But kind-of an "object lesson" to show that it isn't always easy to tell just by appearance - especially with the hatchery red girls.
I have a saying around there.........I don't believe it's a pullet until I see an egg
I'm in! Love BYC & especially love knowing folks nearby.
Here in South Bend.
I am so excited to get a shirt soon! woot!
