Chickens love kefir. I do too, but I always have more than I can drink, myself, so I started giving the extra to the chooks. It’s so fun to watch them cluster around the bowl and just drink like graceful little ballerinas.
Plus, two of my girls have always had an issue with poopy butts. It doesn’t seem to be a health issue; they’ve been tested for parasites, and they show no other signs of ill-health. But once they got on kefir, that problem started clearing right up!
In other news, the newest package of bees has been installed in the hive, and (fingers crossed) this time they will thrive. So far, they are doing better than the previous attempts, and are refusing to eat any of the sugar water I’m putting out for them. That’s a good sign, I think; they must be finding plenty of natural food on their own.
The strawberry bed is thriving, with tons of blossoms.
I bought a couple of plastic owls, and have posted them on guard wherever I have seedlings that might be eaten by birds. Usually, I have to put screens over my sunflower and millet seedlings, and sometimes my peas. The birds just eat them out of the ground, otherwise. With the owls watching over them, I haven’t needed to do screens. I can see why the birds are frightened of them; I’ve come face to face with them a few times, and been startled myself. They are really quite realistic!
Roses are blooming already.
And surprise! This year, instead of chickadees in my bird house, I have bumblebees! So cool.
But perhaps coolest of all is the peach trees.
I just planted these last Spring, and never thought I’d get blooms, much less fruit. But here we are, with little green fuzzies!
It’s still too soon to tell how many will develop into actual fruit, but so far it’s encouraging!
Out of Eden 