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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …