This evening we moved Della into the little coop that we use for the chicken jail or hospital . . whenever we need to separate a chicken for whatever reason, we put them in there. It's big enough for four full size chickens and for tonight at least, she will be in there by herself. She isn't happy being in there alone but at least she's safe from those mean read hens and sex starved Iowa Blue ...
Archives for July 9, 2014
Garlic is In
Yesterday I finally finished getting all the garlic out of the garden. I could leave garlic in the ground and it would sprout again for next year's crop but I don't because I would be leaving a whole bulb of garlic and that produces a clump of plants and they're hard to dig next year and also, next year's garlic isn't going to be planted where I planted it this year. After canning 11 ...
Aggravating Chickens
This last batch of red chickens are just not very nice and they're not very fun to deal with. I've been threatening to make a big pot of gumbo with 10 hens! The little white bantam, Della, who lives with them has been sitting on four fertile Dominique eggs. Yesterday was Day 9. A couple of days ago, I noticed one of the eggs was broken. I didn't know if maybe because it's so hot, it had ...
