From across the yard I spied the rogue chickens scratching and pecking in the garden. “Fucking chickens.” I muttered, scowling. They were alarmingly close to my bed of overwintered garlic, attracted by the freshly raked soil where I’d been working less than an hour before. After 20-some years managing a laying flock, I’m well and truly over it. Chickens…
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