We had a loss this week.
One of the New Hampshire Reds ladies. She was not looking good, lethargic and not eating. I dipped her beak in the water several times and she drank so I was hopeful, but as things went along, she just got worse. Before the time of euthanasia on Saturday evening, she died.
So now our flock count is 28 ladies and two fellas (Foghorn and Egghead). I think the lady who passed might have taken one for the team for Tom – because you gotta think, any guy that sorts his M&M’s by colors before he eats them, has to hate odd numbers.
Still, I am impressed that we only lost one so far this winter. I expected to lose between 3 and 5 just because of the weather and hard conditions. All the others are looking very healthy.
The egg production lately has gone down, if you are wondering why the eggs aren’t coming as fast and furious as they were. I assume the ladies are sick of the cold weather. They have threatened to strike and take over the Capitol Rotunda, but I settled them back down by agreeing to not take away their Collective Bargaining. Last night we had 21 eggs again. I must have appeased them and I assume the warm weather will get them laying heavy again.
Egg Cartons. We are getting low on them, so if you have any saved please return them at your convenience.
Gro-Opers
So it’s nearing the time that we order seeds to get the early bird discounts.
I need to know a couple of things with the next week. 7 days. Please respond.
Or for you work people I’ll put it like Frenchy does in his e-mails:
READ READ READ
1 – Who is taking what type of share? Emily posted last time about Single Shares and Family Shares. I need to know what type of share you want. Ordering seeds is dependent on how many Family Shares/Single Shares we have.
2 – Is there anything you don’t want or want more of? We will order accordingly based upon the majority response. If I receive no response, then I will order about the same as last year.
3 – Matt and I have discussed planting corn at the Co-op South location (aka: his house). He has a fenced garden, and the deer here just won’t leave the corn alone. If we moved the corn to the South location - it would add on a slight charge because Matt will have to rent a tiller to till up his soil for the garden. This would be divided amongst the shares. Some of the DeJong's time would then be spent working the corn garden. Is this something that people would want to do? Let me know. We’ll go on the majority responses on this.
That is all. I have nothing else. There’s way too much snow on the ground yet to think much more about gardening. Please reply to Emily on the above 3 points. bluefarmhousetrade@gmail.com. Thanks!
Later all,
Haus
