It is adorable how they all know where the treats are and rush them isn't it? I backed my truck up to trees that were so loaded down branches were breaking or threatening too: picked into 2 different boxes, people apples and chicken apples. (Some places I left gifts of boxes of new red potatoes I had grown for for letting me back up to their apple laden trees and pick them.) As the apples were sorted into crates, they were sorted again, chicken and people. I purposely kept bushels and bushels of small apples no one wanted for my chickens and to eat out of hand (pocket apples). I am limited in what I can lift too, so all of my carrying was not only done carefully, but ingeniously, in small increments, and great work.
I have peeled bushels of the in between size apples, the apples that are too small for my father's hands, but too nice to go ahead and feed to my chickens. As we go thru the people apples any that get wrinkly go to my chickens too. I hope this fall has a good crop again.
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM in Michigan
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:39 PM, "sidesaddle5@yahoo.com" <sidesaddle5@yahoo.com> wrote:
< on their fannies wiggle back and forth as their little down
covered legs and feet run to get to the apples first. >>
And I thought the rocks had fluffy butts! Mine now start "popcorning" if they see me reach for the mealworms, or if I have the kitchen bucket. And in the mornings, several of them can't *wait* to get into Padi's stall (he's a messy eater)!
Most of my apples went into sauce or jelly, but the chickens did love the remains. And this year's lot are much more appreciative of sweet potato peelings than last year's. Never did figure out what to do with some decorative Indian corn ears someone gave me, though--I had to shell it out!
Rhonda
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covered legs and feet run to get to the apples first. >>
And I thought the rocks had fluffy butts! Mine now start "popcorning" if they see me reach for the mealworms, or if I have the kitchen bucket. And in the mornings, several of them can't *wait* to get into Padi's stall (he's a messy eater)!
Most of my apples went into sauce or jelly, but the chickens did love the remains. And this year's lot are much more appreciative of sweet potato peelings than last year's. Never did figure out what to do with some decorative Indian corn ears someone gave me, though--I had to shell it out!
Rhonda
STOP CORPORATE ABUSE--BAN ALL GMOs!
Sidesaddle Hall of Famer
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