I got some weeds pulled, but that was about it for gardening this week. All my focus is still on my chickies.
This week, one of them discovered what her wings are for. I was giving them treats in the brooder, and she flew up and perched on the edge next to me. Needless to say, I found a way to cover that brooder in a hurry! I thought I’d have at least another week before they’d need a cover over it.
And the treats I gave them? Japanese beetle grubs, dug out of my back yard. I found more than 20 of them in a little 2 square foot area. Not a good sign! I hope those chickies like the taste.
Oooh. Can I pick your brain on chickens? I’m hoping to set up a flock this year, but I desperately need birds that can’t fly worth crap. :D Our fence is four feet high and while I can reinforce the garden, I’d rather not do it for the acre and a half we have fenced.
Chickens are the ONLY thing around here that will eat the adult Japanese Beetles - the copper & green ones, not the ones that look like lady bugs - NO ONE eats them, or Box Elder Bugs. YUCK!
I had a Jung’s customer who helped us out greatly in the Nursery Yard - she wasn’t the least bit squeamish, and she’d pick off Japanese Beetles as she found them (Yes, we had a few, despite traps and all that) and she’d take them home and give them to her chickens.
While I KNOW what goes into a chicken and comes out an egg - there are some things I DON’T want to know, LOL!
ALSO - the Plum Preserves you gave me last summer for my Birthday? We ate half of it, but then the Orioles showed up and I had no grape jelly, so I gave them some of the plum and they are really enjoying it. They’re pretty demanding, already, the Freeloaders! :)