The First Harvest!!

Guess what's for dinner tonight?!?!?!

Chuckle~~

My first shirt tail full of happiness came this morning, as things in the Dhuland garden are starting to rev up...

I'd have like to let the zucchini grow a little larger, but the damned chickens pecked at it leaving it with an open wound that would no doubt attract insects or rot, so it got plucked early.

Damn chickens.

Good thing we like 'em. 

In fact we like 'em SO much that Big Dave and I expanded their coop this past weekend.  We brought two new baby chicks home last month (still haven't taken any pics of them... BAD mama) and decided that if we were going to expand the flock, we needed to give them a little more room to roam.  So we lifted the roof of the coop from the back-breaking 3.5 foot height to almost 6 feet. 

That's some hot, nasty work right there let me tell you...

Ah, there's something so speshal about sweating your balls off with the man of your dreams, covered in chicken shit.  Good times, yes... good times.

But now the ladies can fly up to a high bar in their coop and stretch their wings, which should make them happy chickens.  And we all know what happen chickens mean... more eggs!  Well, maybe... Edith has been protesting for months, and I'm just not sure what her reaction is going to be when we introduce the new pullets...er, teenage chickens, into the coop. But, she better start poppin' out some damn eggs is all I'm sayin.

I could always add chicken to the stir fry~

 

Comments

[Pam James]

Jamie: talked to a guy who has a chicken farm, he says that when chickens stop laying eggs they are molting...we had one do this she lost all of her feathers and stop laying eggs...to get them through this put them back on the starter feed that they were on as babies for a few days and that should help....we have noticed that one will not lay an egg the next day after getting scratch so we do not give it to them as often...also to make eggs have a stronger shell give them oyster shells to peck at...can you let me know how yours do with adding new babies we want to get a couple more but we have been told that our ladies (Bacon & Eggs) will peck at them and not be very nice.....I almost bought some ducks but decided with Golden Retrievers maybe not a good idea :-)