Re: no more chickens for me :-(


Mary Fisher wrote:
> "teapot" <lisacole1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1113324763.085476.169960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I know I am going to miss them, but my son was carefully sorting
> > pebbles of chicken crap into a bucket this morning
>
> NO! They're wonderful for the garden, you'd really grow some stuff
after the
> hens.
>
> It was the effect of the hens on the garden which made me start
growing
> vegetables, which I'd never had success with before.
>
> Mary

Ahh, I used to grow veg until the hens rid me of all that troublesome
greenstuff. It's a battle growing stuff with ladies around :-) They are
wiley.

teapot

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