Well! Didn't we have a frightful start to our morning today. Nick went out to let the girls out to roam and when he did role call he counted one missing. Needless to say the search was on for our girl. He looked high and low, backyard and front yard, checked the hen house three times before he told me about it.
Having one of the girls go missing was bad enough, but several days ago one of our neighbors lost a couple of his birds to a coyote. Since we live in a somewhat residential area that was a surprise. About all we see here are skunks, hawks, and stray cats.
I went out to help look for his favorite little girl and began counting: 3 Easter eggers, 3 RIRs, 3 Black Sex-link, and 3speckled what-ever-they are. One of the speckled girls is what he believed was MIA. Counted again, all girls accounted for. Poor Nick, for some reason he was thinking we had 4 of each breed, we actually have 3 each of 4 breeds. What a relief!
Two weeks ago we began letting the girls run free in the backyard farm area, but because of the huge hawk that roosts in our huge pine tree hunting food, we stay outside with them to stand guard. The girls love being out of their run. They eat bugs and greens all day then have their usual grain meal indoors. They have been growing so fast, can't wait to start seeing eggs in their laying boxes.
That was our morning, now I am canning baked beans.
Happy Weekend!
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