Good morning! Another blue sky. Basil is going the wrong way again today.
A crate just for sleeping
In these small crates are young roosters who have turned fierce lately. For now, I’ve put away just two of them. Roosters grow up, of course, and when the mating urge kicks in they can be very rough with the hens. If I separate them only at night, during sleeping hours, it takes a lot of the burden off the hens and everyone is more peaceful. It’s only a cage for sleeping, so out they come. Good morning — have a good day!
The first tomato
I tried growing big tomatoes for the first time, and quite a few have formed. But… the first one to turn properly red has been eaten. It’s a little sad. These are the plants Dolly once got into, trampling them and munching everything, so it’s a small miracle they bore fruit at all, and I’m grateful for that. But apparently a little mouse got to it.
Natsu, come here! Someday I think this one will deal with the mice for me. Say something to everyone: “I’m still a baby, so I don’t know about that.” Hands up! “I don’t knooow.” So there you have it: our long-awaited first tomato was bitten by a mouse. To keep the others safe, I’ll work harder at pulling weeds around here. Grow big!
A mountain of sawdust
We were given a pile of sawdust — I seem to be receiving a lot of things lately. The wife of someone who works at a woodworking company is a friend of a friend of mine — a very distant connection — and when wood shavings piled up, word came that anyone who could use them was welcome to them. I gratefully accepted about 20 huge bags’ worth. It’s lovely and fluffy.
I spread one bag in the chicken coop as an experiment and left it for a while. Now it looks as if it snowed. I first left it in one pile, but before I knew it, it was scattered everywhere — everyone dug through it, which means they played with it. I’m so glad!
Flute is helping with the experiment too, and so is Oreo over there: I’ve spread sawdust on the floor of both their cages. Some chickens are said to be allergic to sawdust, so you need to be a little careful, but I think this amount is probably fine. Now to start using up that mountain. Thank you to everyone who passed it along and gave it to us!
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