Time has flown by! I had meant to post a ‘Friday on the Backyard Farm’ post earlier but didn’t get to it! Seems like so much going on and had to put my time on other things. One of the things is putting ads on the blog! Yay! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and read! 😊

Lets get to it! Right now, we are still dealing with the fox. When I first started writing this post, we hadn’t had the fox take anyone for a couple of months but four days ago the fox took off with one of our rhode island roosters. 😪 The last several days the chickens have been squawking super early in the morning but we can’t see the fox. It seems like this fox does not come out, it stays in the shadows of the forest.

Then we have had two chickens that were hit and killed by a car. A third chicken was found injured, not bearing any weight on his leg. I suspect he was hit by a car 🤔 but he could have fallen or had something else happen. We are still working on our electric fence but have been buying pieces here and there!

rhode island rooster dingle was hit by a car 😥

My plants have been doing well! I have a couple of loofah plants, several herbs, and an olive tree that will be moved to the green house! We have had some cold nights, down into the 30s. We had fixed our green house, but the chickens tore one of the windows again and have put some huge dirt bath holes in the ground since we haven’t used it in a while!

Loofah plant

I had the craziest thing happen a while back to one of the tomatoes! There were sprouts coming from it! Look at the picture below! I planted it and actually had little tomato plants coming up. Can you guess what happened next? All the plants disappeared. I can’t help but suspect the chickens had eaten them 🙄.

We are using a smaller fridge right now since our larger one broke. I had the tomatoes in a plastic bag on top of the fridge. I’m assuming since I had them on top of the fridge they sprouted but they could have already been like that at the store!? I did have them for several days so I’m not sure. I may have to try this again next year.

Thank you again for reading! This is all I have for right now! I should be posting a recipe with sausage soon that is really good! Have a great weekend!