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Summertime. Enjoy the dog days with your stock. It's the time to revel in the fun that is
their innate chickenness and to train them to live with you. The birds will learn to come
when called for table scraps and where to look for water and shade. Grab a cold beer and
a lawn chair and spend a sunset watching your birds at their most active time of day -
that scurrying, clucky time before they bed down. Watch them run around and play and
then, almost as if some bell went o! in their brains, make a beeline for their roost and
call it a night. The long stretch between now and that first egg will be a few months, so
you might as well enjoy your chickens for their entertainment value (better than TV any
day!).
WEEK 1
Teen Spirit
Pullets just this side of two months old are now living outdoors, spending their days ex-
ploring your backyard and their nights safely asleep on their roost. They still look more
like tiny dinosaurs with feathers than fat, happy hens, but their rumps and breasts are
slowly filling out. Eventually they'll mature into the laying hens you envisioned when
you started this adventure, but it'll be a few more months before they start dropping
eggs.
SLUG FEST
After trying everything to protect my romaine lettuce from slugs, I discovered that my
five Black Silkie bantams are the best pest patrol of all. Twice a weekend I deposit them
in the fenced garden, fetch a topic and a blanket, and read while they hunt for slugs.
Every twenty minutes I move them to the next bed. After an hour or so, I am well read
and they are well fed. I no longer have a slug problem and I can get a great tan.
Now that's teamwork.
Honey and Tilda begin to face o” for dominance .
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