I'm bracing my self against that
Harriet knowing that chickens are replace-able! Good info. thanks for letting me know.
I'm also understanding the neighbor is rather attached to their hens and that might not work out so I'm looking in to other places to get some, but 2-4 is a great place to begin I'm thinking but would rather have 6 at least when all this fruit is on that they could eat!
I picked blackberries today they can have 'em if we don't eat these berries for now I've froze most of them and left some out for h. to have on his cereal. They do not drive my blood sugar way up so that's good.
Peaches are the size of apricots but very sweet, this is a young tree so I"m please with this crop. Hoping that the apricot tree does more than just leaves next year! LOL! Maybe chicken poop will help it to grow and produce more shade at least as it's by the hen pen how handy for them!
I raked up fruit and picked it up got the leaves and grass in a pile for composting hens to play in or ? Not sure but it does look better.
Hubby took a stroll around the garden and looked at the stuff growing, we talked about how to treat the lawn for weeds and stuff w/ hens so I feel better about that now. We talked about a plan for taking the forms off the patio next week.
We are talking about hot to track what hen lays, I've been thinking about record keeping.
Also time to do a bit of planning for planting for spring bloom, I do have one plant on my wish list variegated iris bulbs to plant in my "collection".