well, we got our first egg about a week and a half ago! check it out:
it's smaller than a "large" store-bought, but not a mini-egg like my mom's bantams lay. thank you big mama hen :). the others should start laying over the next month or so.
in other chicken-related news, the bloody bleeding dogs got another hen today!! they escaped their pasture (during the day, which is very rare) and managed to nab one of the barred rocks who refuses to be penned up. really crappy. i still don't know what to do about that... but we are down to 3 hens and a rooster. i guess i need to go ahead and let big mama roost, though i'm not sure the rooster is doing his job yet, if you know what i mean.
i just hope matt doesn't shoot the dogs. only half-kidding.
in other unrelated news, the court officially awarded judgment to the bank on the old house, so it will be up for auction on 9/2. it's oddly sickening to think about, even though 99% of the time i don't care at all. it's weird to feel a sense of comfort/relief in my suspicion that things--by which i mean everything--are going to start falling apart for everyone very soon... i've been noticing the sun doing very strange things, like staying in one spot for 4 hours at a time between about 1215-430pm. then speeding up to set on time. i'm just waiting for the day that venus and the other planet show up as big as the moon and make us all vomit our lunches.
but i'm rambling, so that's enough of that.
it's smaller than a "large" store-bought, but not a mini-egg like my mom's bantams lay. thank you big mama hen :). the others should start laying over the next month or so.
in other chicken-related news, the bloody bleeding dogs got another hen today!! they escaped their pasture (during the day, which is very rare) and managed to nab one of the barred rocks who refuses to be penned up. really crappy. i still don't know what to do about that... but we are down to 3 hens and a rooster. i guess i need to go ahead and let big mama roost, though i'm not sure the rooster is doing his job yet, if you know what i mean.
i just hope matt doesn't shoot the dogs. only half-kidding.
in other unrelated news, the court officially awarded judgment to the bank on the old house, so it will be up for auction on 9/2. it's oddly sickening to think about, even though 99% of the time i don't care at all. it's weird to feel a sense of comfort/relief in my suspicion that things--by which i mean everything--are going to start falling apart for everyone very soon... i've been noticing the sun doing very strange things, like staying in one spot for 4 hours at a time between about 1215-430pm. then speeding up to set on time. i'm just waiting for the day that venus and the other planet show up as big as the moon and make us all vomit our lunches.
but i'm rambling, so that's enough of that.
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