Grandma Yellar is a good mother. She started out with 5 babies, lost one and found one so she still has five. Little Blackie started out with 6 babies and now has 3. Grandma Yellar took one of Blackie's babies into her brood while Blackie was not looking. So, we had 11 babies and now we have 8. That is 70% surival rate so far. Since all the chickens roam free and have to fend for themselves, we get a very low rate of survial from year to year. This spring we had 3 pullets left of the many chicks hatched last year. We hope just to stay even from year to year. Three years ago we had 1 rooster and 6 pullets. Today we have one rooster, 5 hens and 8 baby chicks. Only Grandma Yellar is left of the original 7 chickens. As in our own lives, the lives of our chickens are full of threats in the woods and sky.
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i think that is the way to have chickens but can't do it because of nieghbors pets. neighbors cats lay out side of my babies pen and tries to get in, if he could would be a slaughter.
I know the chickens like it so
much better. You can tell my
the cluck, cluck as they move
along the grass.
Glad some chicks made it. yes
there are many threats from the bushes and sky for the US children.
There is a pun in that. And I did not steal it, Erin!!
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