These were painted by my MIL on the basis of photographs taken last summer. Aren’t they absolutely gorgeous! Oh, I just had an Insight! Maybe this is the year when we start sending out New Year’s cards? LOL. All images (c) 2012, Sudakshina Ghosh
Category Archives: chickens
Hens Don’t Like Snow, but They Love Hen-Sitters
Yesterday we had our first real snowfall of the season. Just an inch, if that. In the morning I opened the coop hatch and, unlike on other days, the chickens didn’t rush out, scolding, hurrying down the plank to their food under the coop. They poked their heads out, looked around, questioned, hesitated. Two ventured …
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What Makes an Ordinary Day Extraordinary?
A couple of days ago as I was walking to the elementary school to pick up Amie I was suddenly struck by what a fine day it was. Then I stopped in my tracks – we walk to and from school through “the woods”, that’s the neighbors’  wooded backyards, so they were, literally, tracks – and …
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Winter Coop Prep and Eggs
We’ve not had a frost yet, but we will, this evening, and a hard one too: 28 F.  I have my thermometer out in the coop so we’ll know cold it will really get. I’ve harvested all there is to harvest, brought in all my potted plants, drained my rain barrels.  But, being a brand new …
Chicken TV
Best telly ever! Up the volume for some delish schmecking. Makes you hungry just looking at them. One missed out as she was in the nest box laying. These three didn’t leave anything for her.
An Animal Day: the Birds and the Bees
Yesterday was an animal day. First, I checked on Hive 3 and finally undid the mistake I made over a month ago. Back then  I pulled a deep frame out of that hive’s brood box to give to a friend, bees, brood, eggs, honey and pollen and all, whose hive was in trouble. I pulled …
Omelet, oh yes!
Three yolks, two of them homegrown. Smaller, yes, but so much tastier than the big one! Getting two a day now!
The Ladies’ Gifts
This morning Amie and I were so thrilled when we opened the nest box. There, on the bare plank (I hadn’t put any bedding down yet), was the cutest egg you’ve ever soon, a tiny pullet egg. We couldn’t tell which of the four ladies laid this egg, but Pecky was the one who protested …
The Ladies’ Garden
TO DO before Winter in the so-called “Ladies’ Garden”. Â clear weeds, brambles put in path from house to woodpile (to the right , not in picture) and stake make bed for strawberries transplant strawberries from front bed to here reinforce coop roof for snow load finishing touches to coop buck, split and stack more wood …
Our Avian Dinosaurs
Toothless, Tweety, Skipperdy and Pecky looking more and more like T Rex as time goes by