Teresa invested all of her lawn
cutting and baby sitting money in Daisy, whom she bought right after
she had been weaned. The horse has already grown quite a bit since then.
This was something like a fifth to
a tenth of the adult chicken flock. Teresa and Tonia both thought there
had been quite a bit of shrinkage in the size of the flock while they
were away in Virginia. Partly because of that, next year Thanksgiving
is going to be on the family farm. The Delaware on the right is Uncle
Tian Chicken, the only one from their first brood that is still laying
eggs. I think she is something like seven years old right now.
That hole in the floor of the rabbit cage was probably dug by a
coydog or something like that. Grace told me of finding only blood
stains where the rabbit had been.
Her other rabbit
is still okay. I think this is the hen my sister likes a lot. She is a
good fighter, with spurs on her legs. Every year she disappears for a
month or two to her hidey hole under the trailer. Then she comes out
trailing a dozen or fifteen chicks, many of whom usually turn out to be
good layers. No mus, no fuss. She is going to be allowed to do that as
many times as she wants.