I love fall. There, I’ve said it. It’s not that I don’t like the other seasons, after all, I am a gardener and each season brings its own joy. In northern Idaho we do have four seasons: cold, colder, wet and hot, but they don’t fall into neat little time frames. And this year, the “hot” season seemed to pass us by completely. …
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It’s been nearly two weeks since we introduced Midge and Madge, a pair of Buff Orpingtons, to our Second Street Chicken Ranch flock and relative peace has finally settled in. This newly acquired, “peaceful, easy feeling,” hasn’t come without a price. We’ve had bloodshed, a lot of feathers flying and in the end, a flock reduction. Yes, we have sent Henny and Penny packing. …
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The Second Street Chicken Ranch now has two flocks; not the desired outcome of flock integration. Albeit a temporary situation, the new girls, Midge and Madge, have retreated to the serenity of the Penthouse coop while the “Street Level Girls,” are literally camping out in the pen below. This separation pretty much happened on its own (and out of necessity to stay alive). …
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Let me just say up front, flock integration is not for the light hearted. Anyone watch the Bad Girls Club on the Oxygen channel? Yeah, completely trashy, bad-girl drama (makes treadmill time at the gym fly by!). Yup, that’s what we have going on at the Second Street Chicken Ranch — just substitute “chixs” for girls. The two Blondie’s arrived yesterday afternoon and my plan…
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