How many chickens do you suppose have farmers that plant lettuce plants just for them to enjoy and munch down to nubs?  Well...we've been working on the chicken yards and we hadn't patched their escape hatch...I thought..the lettuce will be okay since it's around on the other side of the house, and the chickens haven't been going around there much lately.  Besides, there is green stuff everywhere and plenty of things for them to enjoy as they free range the yard, pasture, and fields...

     I came in from school and looked at my two new freshly planted pots of lettuce.  Gone.  There were just little green stems poking up through the soil reminiscent of some plant long gone.  I knew it had to be the chickens...and then around the corner comes a hen, she hops up on the big pot, and pecks at the stems left behind and looked over at me as to say, "Pock...pock..." "Can we have some more?"  "I tried one of the broccoli plants too, but lettuce is just my favorite."Pcck...pock...thanks for planting it for us..."

    Needless to say...we got busy securing the chicken yard, before she came back to "settle "on the broccoli plants.  When dark came, we went out and grabbed every hen that had not gone back to the roost.  They were a little disappointed today and held back on their eggs being locked up in a new yard.  But the broccoli plants looked undamaged when I returned home this afternoon.

    So I guess I'm off to find some new lettuce plants to try again.  I do so like fresh lettuce.  I guess I can say I'm not the only one...my hens sure like it too.

    Why can't they like those awful morning glory vines that are taking over everywhere?  They look beautiful in the mornings when they bloom, but that beauty is only skin deep as they cover any plant near them.