Did you see that? That extra minute of sunlight this morning? It is coming. Spring is coming...It makes us giddy to think of the planting, the eggs, the produce, fresh veggies, so much fresh raw milk we give it to the dogs(something that does NOT happen now), young kids leaping around their mammas, incubators peeping, children outside these walls...snap out of it Jenn...it's December. Bummer. But I know it is coming and that makes every day a little brighter. The longest day of the year is OVER. Oh happy day!
I have this hen. She thinks it is Spring. She is a confused hen. Every morning we collect eggs she sits there with ruffled feathers and a mean look on her...er...face. She is broody. Passionately broody. She is ready for a family. One small detail she missed is that it is winter yet. Poor chicken. I will not leave the warm, nicely tucked eggs under her, for they would die as soon as her brooding efforts produced chicks and if there is one thing I can not stand, is to see a mother hen who lost her chicks. They wonder around distraught for hours. It is a most pitiful sight. She needs to trust I know better, not peck my hand as I take those eggs from her and in two more months, when her mother chicken broodiness returns, I will leave her a whole handful of eggs. Oh, if only those dumb chickens could understand!
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If only they could understand. That phrase often comes to my mind when I am trying to train the children. If only you could understand this is not to be mean but ot help you. Help you to learn and grow. If only they could understand how mommies heart aches when the big tears roll down their sweet cheeks. In the end it is all for the good of them. The chicken or the children.
And I agree yipee for the spring that is to come. I need to see more daylight, more sunshine, and experience more out door fun.
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