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Here comes the Rooster
Well, the baby chicks are not babies anymore!
And we got a Rooster! He is very entertaining and fearless. His name is Roo, of course. He will take on dogs, cats, squirrels, crackles, mockingbirds, you name it, if he thinks they are threatening “his” hens. And he likes to hear himself talk, all kinds of sounds, [...]
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Baby Chicks are here!
Well, the baby chicks finally arrived yesterday -five Golden Campine day old chicks all the way to Texas from Connecticut.
Our local Post Office was kind enough to call at 5:45 in the morning announcing their arrival. Susie and I jumped into our clothes and headed around the corner to pick them up. We heard loud [...]
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Recycle dog run into a chicken run…
Finally, my dear husband has agreed to let us have a go at raising a few chickens. For the first time in 30 years, we don’t have any dogs (miss them though). So, here is an empty dog run - I’m trying to remember why we built this in the first place because our dogs [...]
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If you don’t have Hack, you don’t have jack.
Here is what the railroad company does to trees that grow too close to the tracks. Every couple of years they come by with a giant “tree wacker” and obliterate whatever they can reach. These pretty Soap Berry trees are wacked, but they didn’t reach the Hackberry trees. Hackberry trees are Texas sized weeds and [...]
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