OK, I admit that this post is really, really, really late. Fashionably late. I think. In my defense, I
started the post the day after Thanksgiving. Anyways... without further ado... the post!
[applause]
This Thanksgiving, my family and I stuffed ourselves with turkey, gravy, baked yams, homemade mashed potatoes, bok choy--yes, yes, not really a Thanksgiving dinner staple--, and apple pie (not homemade, but it
could've been, except for the lack of apples. And the lack of pie crusts.). The chickens were not forgotten. While they were not served turkey or gravy or mashed potatoes, they got the skins off of the yams:
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| :D |
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| :) |
Actually, they grudgingly agreed to eat some of the flesh too, which is a first.
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| ??? |
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| !!! |
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| :( |
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| ^_^ | |
And some leaves off of the bok choy... before it was cooked, of course. It was gone before I could get my camera focused properly.
They also ate lettuce. Well, Qwerty tore off a huge chunk of it and ran off. The others, naturally, abandoned the remaining lettuce to chase her. Then, Swan stole the leaf from Qwerty and dragged it under the bush to eat it.
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| /sad |
And I showed them my Halloween pumpkins. Several chicken keepers suggest providing hens with a pumpkin to occupy themselves with, especially during the winter months, but my chickens do not eat "scary" things. (And yet they'll eat spiders without a qualm.) Plus, I like my pumpkins and would prefer to keep them intact as long as possible
. Which, last year, was until about August the next year.
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| o.O |
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| :O |
And, of course, immediately following the
meal gorging indulgence,
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| ~:> |
A sigh of contentment and a preening session.
