We had a late taste of winter this week. It snowed enough for Lawman to get out and use the snow blower to cut a path down to the slanty shanty. The birds are kinda goofy about coming out in the mornings when there is snow on the ground. Once they see the ground, they come out of the coop and go about their regular routine.
After the girls came out and started milling around, we heard a commotion outside. Lawman went to investigate and found a dog steady running down and killing our girls.
He went back to the house and grabbed the trusty 1911 and managed to scare the dog off. It's owners, our new neighbors, were chasing them around the yard yelling for them to stop, but the dogs were having none of it. After Lawman started shooting, the killer dog turned and ran toward Cupcake. This put Lawman's rule of not killing a dog to the test. Proper shot placement turned the dog away from Cupcake and back towards it's house with the neighbors trailing behind them. They caught and stopped one dog before it did any damage.
After the carnage was over, the majority of the hens did not come back to the coop. We have sixty birds total, this was all that went up the night after the attack.
Over the next two days, the hens started returning to the coop. We lost twelve total, and egg production dropped by one dozen a day, so we lost layers. Yay us.
Lawman finished the top bar bee hive, and put a coat of Teak Oil on it. It really made the cedar wood 'pop'. Bring on the bees.
We've had a couple of plum trees in the garage, we've been waiting for the weather to break so we could plant them. It's calling for heavy rain in the coming week, so we went ahead and planted them over the weekend.
The last plum trees we bought died, a couple of them never had leaves on them so they were probably dead when we bought them. These have leaves and even blooms. We're sure the fruit won't make it this season, but we're nothing if not patient.
Our onion sets arrived, so garden stuff is about to jump off. We put these in water to keep them alive until we can get the garden in shape.
On the food front, we used up the leftover brisket to make baked burritos one night.
"The Boy" wanted another home made pizza for dinner one night.
And as always, we ended the week with wings. And oysters.
K&K
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