Yorkshire Andy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:01 am
jansman wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:36 am
Today,or tomorrow,before it gets too warm I am picking up new fowls. The last of my elderly flock expired,
We got 4 pullets earlier this week the last three old birds haven't laid an egg for 2 months ..... So will soon be for the chop no point feeding something that's not laying I refuse to see them as pets but they do get looked after and have plenty of space to be chickens on the allotment they've got a 1 to 2 meter run right round three sides of the 8x10 greenhouse plenty of things to entertain them but if they are not producing they are no good to me. .
Cost us 2lb of strawberries in exchange from a friend who has a cockerel and a incubator
Nice exchange that! Back in the day,once this lot had stopped laying,I would have ‘helped them along’ as it were. However,Mrs J actually takes an interest in them,so unfortunately (?) they are part of the family.
To be honest, if it were tough times,then my head would rule my heart. Some years ago,a chap in our village,Vince,a keen shooting and fishing man ,told me something: He said,” When you get past 50, you aren’t so keen on killing stuff ,you are nearer your death than your birth.If you are going to eat it,fair enough,but you’ll see.” At that time,I was shooting and coursing anything that moved! I am approaching 60 now,and I know what he meant…but I digress. The new birds are settling in nicely!
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.