Afternoon all.
Sunny and 80 today. Expecting some lightening later this afternoon in the high country, and a little rain.
My bean plants mysteriously disappeared last night, and the only evidence of the culprit is a single deer pellet. So much for my beans. Didn't touch any of the sunflowers, though.
Also had to kill one of our hens this morning. She's been acting strangely the past week or so while I've been gone, and yesterday she was getting pecked at by the other hens. Then when we let them out this morning, she wouldn't come off the roost, and when my mom picked her up, she coughed up a bunch of yellow/green stuff that smelled like bad eggs. A post-mortem showed that she was egg-bound. Her entire body cavity was filled with partially shelled eggs, and broken yolk. All of her organs were pushed against her neck, cutting off the tube from crop to gizzard. Never seen anything like it. Just felt bad we couldn't have done something sooner.
--TK