It is official...
Thanksgiving Dinner is over, Christmas season is starting.
The fall decorations are coming down, the pumpkin was hauled out to the chickens. Our pet silky chickens (yep, they each have been named) are not sure what we expect them to do with that big ole pumpkin. It has started getting soft after sitting all season in the sun by our front door. It shouldn't take them long to figure it out, after Donya made a start hole for them.
This past season has given us some unexpected surprises and excitement with our dear little pets. Don found a skunk in the little chicken tractor we were keeping 5 of the gray silkies in near the garden. We were using the chicks to help clean up the unharvested tomatoes until the unwelcome visitor was discovered. It had killed one of the little gray hens, grrrrr. So Don shut the exit door with the dead bird and skunk inside the hut. The remaining hens and rooster were in the attached fence. After shooting the skunk (and making a bullet hole in the hut floor) we decided it was time to move all the flocks to the newly built chicken house.. including those that were housed in the horse barn, temporarily. The chicken tractor will need all winter to air out!!!
Now, let the Christmas decorating begin!!!!!
