My garden is really not doing very well. The bugs are giving me, and my garden, a really hard time. Ants, Flea Beetles, Slugs...... sigh.
On another note our wild turkey has come back home, but then left again. So, that makes me believe she has a nest somewhere close by. Sadly, she will not have chicks because she is the only turkey we have.....
We were tortured all day by a Hawk stalking our free ranging chickens. Both times I chased it away, guess it figured I was a bit too large to get back to the nest. haha
I think the chickens picked all our haskap berries, I cannot find a single one. We didn't get the fence up soon enough I guess. Oh well, there's always next year..... On the other hand, our blueberry bushes are hanging heavy with berries and we did get a fence around them this year. Last year the chickens ate all the blueberries. We DID learn our lesson about fencing to protect the berries from the birds but we just didn't have the time to get it up.
The meat chickens are growing like crazy! They have actually almost out grown the pen we have them in so we are working hard to complete the new barn so they have ample space and a nice big outdoor run.
Fences and chickens seem to go hand-in-hand. I'm glad to see the follow buttons up and working on your blog now :-)
ReplyDeleteUpdate....Chickens Wrongfully Accused of Consuming Haskap Crop.....Found poop containing berry seeds on the field near plants and it's not chicken poop. New Suspect....Raccoon....
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