Thursday, May 27, 2010

You had what in your bathtub????

Two of our chickens were sick yesterday, so sick they just laid on the floor of the coop and didn't even move when I petted them. It was very sad as they just flopped there and didn't even care when I picked them up. Their stomaches were very swollen and hot. I assumed they were eggbound and promptly soaked them in our bathtub. One promptly drowned when I went to deal with screaming Emmy, so sick it couldn't even raise its head out of the water. The other was just as sick and after I reached inside and didn't feel an egg, I decided to put it out of its misery. The poor thing didn't even fight me.
















Here is the baskets that I delivered this week to my two customers of fresh veggies, it is really early in the season but both were extremely happy with the baskets. Hopefully they will be fuller next week. This week there was duck eggs, chicken eggs, two kinds of lettuce, onions, chives and radishes.







Meet Huey, the abandoned Canadian gosling that is making a home here in our living room. We have had him for over a week now and Fish and Game is suppose to be coming to get him, but so far - not yet. Some people called and told us that some other people had given him/her to them and they didn't know what kind of duck he was. I went down and realized very fast he was a gosling and he didn't have enough heat in his cage. He came home with us. We spent hours last week-end looking for a gosling family that would adopt him but as luck would have it, when we needed a Canadian goose they were none to be found.




2 comments:

Krisann at Beaman's Fork Soap Co. said...

So sorry to hear about your chickens!

Your veggie baskets look wonderful & inspiring. We've gatta start going through some lettuce here ASAP before it all goes to waste (every year I plant way more than The Boy and I can consume on our own so I start shelling it out right and left to happy takers everywhere... haha)

And too bad you're not closer by. There's a ton of Canadian geese that live over at The Boy's office and they're strutting around with babies all over the place right now. There's bound to be a taker in there I'd think!

Amanda J said...

Isn't it a wonderful feeling to be able to share out of the garden, it gives me great joy to raise something I raised.