Today’s Run: \u00a05.25 miles<\/p>\n
Those of you who read my blog regularly know that I had a little(?) problem with a raccoon a week ago. \u00a0This nasty creature ate three of my best laying hens. \u00a0This made me very unhappy and it stressed out my remaining hens. \u00a0They are doing better now and laying again but they were not happy chickens.<\/p>\n
Now, the chicken area of my yard looks lonely. \u00a0I love the hens I have but I miss the hustle and bustle of a lot of chickens scurrying around the yard. \u00a0My husband and I talked it over and decided to replace the lost hens.<\/p>\n
I have access to people who have chickens. \u00a0A poultry swap on FB. \u00a0These people are fanatics about their chickens! \u00a0I thought I was bad but I do not hold a candle to some of these people! \u00a0One person even has a special cage in her house to keep her favorite chicken with her at all times. \u00a0That is going above and beyond (IMO).<\/p>\n
Anyway, I sent out feelers today and have located 4 Black\u00a0Australorp hens and hour north of where I live. \u00a0Tomorrow I will go for a nice drive and bring the ladies home.<\/p>\n
I know I am in for a bit of a rough week with the pecking for order in the flock~but after a bit of time, all will be well and they will be the best of friends.<\/p>\n
The only Black\u00a0Australorp I have presently is Ed Stakrispie. \u00a0She is the hero of the childrens stories I write for our regional magazine. \u00a0It will be difficult to top a name like Ed Stakrispie but I am asking you to put a few moments of time into name suggestions for the new ladies. \u00a0Thanks for your help~~~<\/p>\n
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Today’s Run: \u00a05.25 miles Those of you who read my blog regularly know that I had a little(?) problem with a raccoon a week ago. \u00a0This nasty creature ate three of my best laying hens. \u00a0This made me very unhappy and it stressed out my remaining hens. \u00a0They are doing better now and laying again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}