We had a big let down in June... Yeah, that's a really bad photo edit of a "dead chicken." Seriously, I have to have a sense of humor about the whole thing, because otherwise, I'd probably cry: all of our meat birds were killed . About a week before we had planned to butcher. It sucks. Needless to say, the blog post I had promised about sharing the butchering is not happening. Something managed to get into the coop and killed them all (we had around 30 chickens). We're thinking it was probably a weasel. Now we are stuck with a loss; all the money we spent on feed, the time my husband put into building new feeders and setting up a watering system--poof!--gone. I guess that is the nature of farming, whether it be chickens killed by weasels, rain washing away your seeds, or frost killing off all your apple blossoms. Mother nature doesn't play favorites. But, as Babe Ruth said, "Every strike brings me closer to the next home ru...
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