backyard chicken

Hen in the meadow

ODE TO GRETA, the orneriest chicken

This year has been a heartbreaker.

You might not think you could get attached to chickens (I certainly would have never seen it coming!), but they are more like pets than producers for our family. In a span of two months, I lost three of my hens to gnat suffocation and heat stress. Here is Greta’s obituary.