We made it 6 days. We did not make it 41 days. On the morning of the sixth day Cashew had come to my bed and barked every hour on the hour since 10 pm the night before. I never hit deep sleep, ever, because every hour on the hour cashew was there barking in …
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41 Days was a Lofty Idea.
As you’ll hear in this audio clip, beginning at 4 am, Buddy crows once every 30 seconds until around 7 pm. I became acutely aware of this because Buddy was sharing a 1 room 384 square foot house with a tin roof with me and both dogs, one of which has always possessed a strong …
Acquiring a Rooster in Cherry Spring
Ever since Olive joined the menopausal bunch meaning i had no more laying age buff hens and Sumac turned out to be just Sue, my pipe dream of making Reese’s peanut butter cup chickens come february when their eggs would be large enough to contain a full grown chick, was drifting further away. I still …
9779
I give my chickens ful-o-pep 9779 scratch. I do that because theres ingredients in the scratch that act as a natural dewormer, plentry of vitamins, ingredients to support gut health, enough calcium to keep their shells hard, and their feathers are always a rich, vibrant, and shiny color. They always look really healthy when on …
Nakano
Theres been a couple spotted orb weavers hanging out making webs in the chicken pens but this is the first orb weaver that has made a web on the porch this year. It is a golden orb weaver. The light attracts praying mantises at night and the porch finally had to get sprayed with poison …
Homemade Earring Backs
One of the patients at work has head tremors and every time her head jerks her earrings fly off. She asked me if i could put it back in and i told her i had a better idea. Lets make you some earring backs. I went to the office and asked for two pencils. The …
Wild Game is Back on the Menu
After several stomach infections and nearly a year of not being able to eat anything other than fruit, cucumber, and water without aggravating bleeding ulcers and messing up my digestion further, losing 18 lbs and wasting some muscle…after spending so many thousands of dollars at the naturopath in order to fix me so i could …
Happy Tails Visits at Work
They brought a porcupine to see the patients and everyone wanted to pet that. No one wanted to hold Charlie the Boa Constrictor as these were mostly retired farmers who had spent their lives dealing with rattlesnakes. They didnt want anything to do with poor Charlie so i held him while everyone petted the porcupine. …
When God Decides to Paint with Light
The Rat Snake/Egg Eating/Surprise “Not the Rooster” Drama
One day i went outside and found an 8 foot snake skin hanging from the top of the pullet pen. I had never seen a snake that long and made a note that there was a rather large snake in the area. Now, rat snakes like to climb up high to shed their skins and …
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