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. …
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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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What are We Doing Here?
I found myself rather disenchanted with humanity lately. I ask the question “what the **** does God see in humans?” often but this past week i really couldnt see anything redeemable at all. I do think it has to do with the fact that im surrounded by a lot of people who are going through …
Frog and Toad Season
I keep trying to get images of the hundreds of baby toads hopping around the property this month but they move so fast. They dont hold still while i focus the camera. The tree frogs do tend to hold still so i have more images of them. I did get one image of a large …
Nana Pudding
There she is in all her sassy glory. Half the size of her orpington sisters but twice the amount of attitude. if i open the nesting box to load one up at night…she will fly out and need recaptured, you can be sure. Americaunas are smart chickens so if you are used to orpingtons…you’ve been …
The Pullets’ First Carton of Eggs
This was the first whole carton of eggs the pullets ever laid. The eggs started out very tiny. I had to decide which of the people i supplied with eggs got the first batch of enchantingly tiny eggs because as the chickens grew, so too would the eggs, and only one carton was ever this …
A Bad Day gets Better
I had had a very trying day. Everyone and their cousin and their dog had unmet expectations about how i should be both on and off the clock and nobody really seemed to care who i was. A patient’s brother was taking it very personal that i didnt pay attention to everyone in the grocery …
The Pullets Lay their First Eggs
When the rat snake posted up inside the pullets’ pen i thought, “what in the world are you doing in there? Why not get in the adult chicken pen where they have an occasional egg? Because the pullets were not supposed to start laying until september, so they started 3 weeks early. Turns out, the …
Hand Stitching Scrubs
Im currently in a financial era of my life where i cannot afford the services of a tailor…and the one i had retired anyway, so, if threading busts, i have to fix it myself. Due to a bunch of trauma surrounding my sister sewing through her finger and passing out still attached to the sewing …