Was looking out of my kid's new upstairs bedroom yesterday and saw what I thought was a rat or really large mouse in the goat pen. Right there, among the miniature goats and chicks. Creeped me out.
But just now, I was fixing my lunch and happened to look out of the back door. A chipmunk! Nosing around, looking for goodies my chickens might have overlooked. Sniffed. Stood up on its back legs. Looked around, and back down.
It was then that I realized it was probably a chipmunk I had seen in the goat pen.
Still, not good.
Chipmunks eat eggs and plants, seeds, seedlings, and so on. A pair of chipmunks can build a huge colony in no time at all, wiping out a garden and eating the chicken eggs. Personally, I'd been wondering why I was only getting about 6 eggs a day from my 9 girls.
Now I know.
Meanwhile, even tho it's supposed to rain much of this 3-day weekend, we'll hopefully finish putting up the garden fence, planting corn, sunflowers, millet, squash and a few other things, and might even have time to see a movie.
Oh, and when my broody hen took her morning constitutional today, I looked at her eggs. Today is day 20 (of 21 days). Two eggs were cracked, one partially open with a mature chick inside. I didn't touch because Broody Hen was raising her hackles, but I didn't see movement. Hoping they were hatching and just taking a rest. Hoping they were NOT dead. I'll check again in a little bit.
So ... might not be able to blog this weekend. Hoping to be busy with baby chicks and baby goats but... we'll see.
Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend.
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