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Jul 28, 2013 8:45 PM CST
Name: Arlene
Grantville, GA (Zone 8a)
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I like that, Chicken-TV! But Porkpal is so right, reality would come crushing down. I don't have to take care of the animals here but we have had our run ins. Chickens scratching out all your flower beds, pecking all the low hanging tomatoes (still have guineas doing that), oh, guineas taking a dust bath in a newly planted row. The goats ate most of the apple trees, the fig tree. So far only one has gotten out. Not that he couldn't get out again, just thankfully he hasn't.

One year I thought someone had tilled my beet row. It was the chickens scratching. That did it! i told my son they had to have a run or I couldn't garden. He built a run. They still got out. Had to clip their wings. They still got out. Had to move every object near the fence so they wouldn't hop on and then jump over the fence.

Now we get along just fine. They watch me when I go to the garden, waiting for me to bring them a treat, then they all come running.

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