If you want to raise chickens, you have to understand that chickens aren’t just wild creatures. They aren’t like cows and horses, able to live outside in all types of weather. They’re sort of like little edible people, not adequately equipped to survive in the regular world although they do try.
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If you have any doubts about what the tree will do when it falls, or which limb to cut first when it’s down, take a few minutes for some sitting and speculating. Back in the days when tobacco was a healthy habit, it was a great excuse to light up a pipe or a cigarette, or bite down on the end of a plug. Sadly, there’s no modern substitute for that old tradition. I miss it lots.
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I suppose it was a battle of pride on the hawk’s side, because it stayed until it made a kill. The resident rooster at that time happened to be a Mottled Houdan who took over when my last Rhode Island Red died in combat of some sort. That’s happened so often I can’t recall the details of his parting. Roosters die a lot and you just lose track of all the tragedies.
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