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First post about life, chickens, and death.

With so much life on the farm, it’s sad to see something so dead. Yesterday I opened my chicken coop to find my top hen dead… I used to name my chickens they do all have chickenalities. Then I saw my little friends start dying. Some dogs took, leaving gobs of entrails on the lawn, some just didn’t make it past puberty for some reason or another, my second favorite hen “squirmy” died trying to eat something on the other side of a basket and got her head stuck. My very favorite a white silky banty hen named “emu”. She just vanished one day. But the worst I saw was the one that I almost saved from a hawk who was carrying her off, the other girls watching I’m sure with horror. But when the red tailed hawk dropped her, too much of her head was missing. That’s life on the farm.

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  1. Phil
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 6:57 pm | Permalink

    Best of luck with the new venture. My wife Sarah and I stopped by Cornerstone today and Steve gave us the news and our final shipment. Since we live in SF we’re DEFINITELY going to have to check out Weird Fish. It sounds right up our alley!

  2. Posted December 28, 2009 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

    Ugh, I liked! So clear and positively.
    Ilias

  3. Posted January 7, 2010 at 9:56 am | Permalink

    I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
    And you et an account on Twitter?

  4. Tango Farms
    Posted January 15, 2010 at 9:52 am | Permalink

    I too changed my path and grow and raise food . It is very gratifying. I better go and find that ewe that wondered off to have a lamb. Wish you the best and I will certainly visit the Weird Fish when in S.F.

  5. Posted January 15, 2010 at 4:05 pm | Permalink

    Niomi,
    great concept and all the best go farm gril.
    ray

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  1. By A Happy Cautionary Tale : Wine Blog Reviews on January 16, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    [...] now, according to the PD article, Naomi is farming vegetables and, according to her blog, watching her chickens die. I haven't talked to her in a long while, but I'd be willing to guess this girl is happier [...]

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