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<\/a>A pathetic harvest<\/p><\/div>\n
Yesterday I put them on the chicken’s patio.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The girls were very wary<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Emerald tries a different angle<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Peaches has a look<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Peaches has a peck<\/p><\/div>\n
They decided these were not good and ignored them. I decided that they must need cooking as they were probably too hard for them. I gathered them up and cooked them then returned them to the chicken’s patio today. My girls are so spoilt! This got a totally different reaction.<\/p>\n
<\/a>This is more interesting<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Topaz and Emerald like it<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Butterscotch has no interest, she is on her way to the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Toffee joins in<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Toffee likes it<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Even Speckles joins in<\/p><\/div>\n
They had the corn stripped from the cobs in no time. I left them there for the rest of the day as they like to go back and peck them some more. At least they weren’t wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I decided to harvest our corn on the cob as I think it’s too late in the year for them to fill out and I don’t want to lose them if we have a frost. I decided they would have … Continue reading