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Oops… and then there were 34

“Oops” is the “G” rated version of the word that came out of my mouth this morning at 5:35am as I was moving the chicken pen and the dolly got caught in a hole and the pen came crashing down on top of a hen. I’m a little bigger than her – and I wouldn’t [...]

Non-update, update: Pick Pickens Plan?

Face it – we need oil. The president said we were “addicted” to it. The world knows it. And now – it’s starting to get expensive – making everything we have and do more expensive – because so little of it is sans oil in one of it’s many forms.So now – in [...]

"Fit" Bluebirds

Female Bluebird on Weather StationOriginally uploaded by fishpickdiver

Darwin wrote about the concept of “Survival of the Fittest” – which is often maligned and misrepresented by people who don’t understand the definitions of the words used. In simple terms – “fitness” is the ability to produce offspring that will survive to reproduction age – thereby increasing [...]

Chicken (not) Little

At a bit over 5 weeks now – these chickens are getting big. As a matter of fact we just did a 4.5 hen on the rotisserie the other night and I have to day – as we were looking at it going round and round – and the pen in the background… it [...]