Fun on the Farm

Have you ever herded a chicken? My brilliant thought was to let my chickens do the "free range" thing, roam the pasture, be one with nature....while I got my Birkenstocks and long jean skirt out. And one of the little brave hens headed over to the neighbors pasture, where the bull lives with his polygamist family. Hubs, " go ahead, he's a Charolais, he won't hurt you....meek as a lamb"...righttttttt! So there I am, ripping my skin off on the brush, shimming under barbed wire fences, looking for the rabid bull and his babes...and there SHE was! Finally. She managed to find a hole amidst the brush and wire, hubs helped her through and then the rooster, Big Red, took advantage of her! And ya'll think I just sit around and eat bon-bons and drink tea all day? I wish.
                                                                                   

Season for chooks

My neighbor down the road decided to try her hand at incubating eggs. She did good...I bought 25 of the little dickens! Pic to follow tomorrow, gotta go tuck them in for the night, cheep, cheep....Elaine