Cultivating chickens

The ladies seem to want to help with cleaning the bugs off my windsheild and radiator... this didn't last for long, as I didn't want any extra deposits there!

It felt like such an incredibly long and busy week around here. Our visitors are gone, but we had such a lovely time with them, and we actually went bowling! I bowled a 117, and then a measly 78!

The vegetable garden is doing fabulous. We have beans daily, salad greens, zucchini a plenty, and spaghetti squash galore! There are some onions there… I cleared the tops of the bigger bulbs; half the batch just isn’t growing the same. It’s the oddest thing; everything on the Northeast side of the garden is smaller and sparse. I spent several hours in the garden last weekend, plus with the helping hands of visitors and The Cultivator* it seems like its ready for my week long absence.

However my clematis may not survive my absence. It has a new shoot, since following directions from my mom…but nothing as revived itself. Instead of cultivating wonderful flowers I’ve been cultivating chickens. The ladies have been seen plucking at the flowers, leaves, and displace all my mulch for a personal dust bath! I tried to put up tiny ugly fence up but that proved to be worthless and more work for me to replace the mulch and mend places in the fence so I took it down.

Oh what a nutty bunch they have become since Hen Who Crows demise, they seem to all have found their inner squawk, but thank God no of the other hens are crowing!

We are getting new layers everyday which is downright awesome! Averaging 5 eggs a day, so a little less than 1/2 the hens are laying. We need to install some extra laying boxes in the coop, they actually argue over who is going to be in which box with a lot of sqawking and feather pulling with eachother. We had a fake plastic egg in one of the boxes, to encourage them to lay (I don't know if it worked) but they rejected it this morning and pushed it out of the box onto the floor.