#bloomhaven

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Bloomhaven's first house and garden (here's the garden)🌻

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Morning light puppers

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Backyard sunset with Omie

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I uncovered a secret chicken nest among my sunchokes while weed whacking yesterday, but left the eggs to deal with later. This morning they were gone - all 7 of them. It was outside the fence, so some varmint got a feast last night. Possibly there is a very lumpy black snake sleeping it off in the woods.

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The young hens are starting to lay - first olive eggs!

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Evidence of my willow work, and how big/wild I've let them get before this first proper cut back. Plus bonus black hen.

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I went to count chickens & do final egg check around dusk, and it's been rainy all day so it was especially dim. So I'm putting my hands in nest boxes, and I feel. Not. Eggshell. Where it sure looked like Egg should be.

It turned out to be one of those shell-less eggs, just a hiccup in a hen's egg-construction system, something that happens sometimes. But that was unsettling to put my hand on, when I expected a very different feeling.

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Found another fallen bird's nest in my yard, not quite as tiny as the last one.