Mud and the Art of Chicken Maintenance
I am so fed up of mud. It’s everywhere right now. The poor chickens are miserable, I do my best to ensure their coop is dry by the time they go to bed but during daylight hours they have to scratch around in a soupy bog. I’m having to lay down fresh straw every single morning, and every night I’m having to remove their bedding and replace it with fresh to ensure they have somewhere warm and dry to sleep. You’re supposed to do this, depending on who you talk to and what you read, once a week or every fortnight. But I can’t see how I could leave the poor girls for 14 days without a change of bedding, even at the height of summer. Who wants to sleep in their own doings?
tags: age, change, chickens, Circle of Life, fruit, gardening, Goddess, life journey, meditation, mud, nature, Paganism, self-awareness, spirituality, vegetables, Wheel of the YearThe high cost of greater self-sufficiency
It’s depressing how much money we’ve had to spend on getting set up to grow our own fruit and vegetables. We won’t have anywhere near the same outlay after the first year, but so far we must have spent at least a grand on trees, seeds, manure, topsoil, a chicken coop, tools, a wheelbarrow, wooden planks and stakes, chicken wire, a mini-greenhouse and a walk-in greenhouse (both fairly temporary structures, not brick-and-glass).
tags: fruit, gardening, greenhouse, self-sufficiency, vegetables
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