Glad you are not patient zero, SCG. There were several mornings that I woke up exhausted and thought about that sleepy rooster....
We are going to cull this sick hen. She is older, not responding to sour-crop treatment, and unable to use her legs at all. And her feet have curled into tight fists. She looks dead, (never opens her eyes or lifts her head), but she keeps breathing, so we're going to put an end to it.
Our garden is a mixed bag, LG. One hoop house looks empty, other than a few tiny sprouts. I just replanted corn and cucumbers in there. The other hoop house looks good, with it's hardware cloth collars everywhere, but we ran out of hardware cloth and the rat returned. It took some sweet potato plants, and decided to eat the eggplant leaves that stuck up above the hardware cloth. Apparently I need concentric rings of taller and taller hardware cloth, perhaps with barbed-wire all around the garden. It is getting ridiculous! I have some expanded metal I could work with for a few sweet potatoes. The rat zapper is out there, baited with peanut butter, but no hits yet.
Brassicas, beans, potatoes, and onions look good so far. I bought some high-bush blueberries a couple years ago (although my bushes are tiny and low) and today's job is to find them in the weeds.
I do de-worm my flock twice a year, more if necessary, because my girls get roundworm otherwise.
