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We may be blown away today but thankfully it is NOT
raining. The sun shining down on the hoop houses heats things up nicely inside
and gives the plants enclosed therein the courage to start growing a
little.
I will tell you, though, that chickens HATE wind. It
makes things blow around that look like flying creatures. It may just be a big
leaf, but the roosters take no chances in sounding the alarms, just not being
sure that the leaf in question might not be a hawk in disquise. One never knows
these days . . .
Yesterday everyone here was border line nuts. I have two
alpacas who have discovered the joys of eating chicken feed and have discovered
the trick of getting into the large stall I've made into a chicken coop at the
"llama barn". Very annoying. To top it off, yesterday morning, during my
breakfast ritual of eating my cereal in front of the sliding glass door that
overlooks the "kingdom", I noticed that the tack room door at the "llama barn"
was standing open. Annoying again. That would mean hens were in there laying
eggs amongst the bales of hay that would not be discovered; alpacas would up in
the tack room eating alfalfa hay, their favorite but available to them on a
limited basis; etc., etc. I went ahead and finished my cereal, then dressed and
went down to see what the damage was.
Instead of "all of the above" I discovered that SOMEBODY
had drug out two feed bags that the hens had busily and happily shredded into
millions of pieces. Why? Boredom? Rain fever? Because they could? Another
annoyance. Oh well, such is life here on the farm . . .
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Posted by Carmen
@ 04:51 PM EDT
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