New Things I Learned
Nov. 26th, 2009 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botiasJenna Jameson doesn't like to cuddle after (calls it the 'C' word) and I learned something new about chickens.
I put an ad on craigslist asking for chicken manure. A few years ago I got a truck load of horse manure/bedding for my garden and it worked out well. It was free and the guy loaded it into the truck with his tractor thing, and it was all good. And sure enough, there was a person who was happy to have me clean out their chicken coop. And it was all good. Until the itching started. FLEAS. Chickens can get fleas. I didn't know this. (Don't tell me it's mites or lice. I have seen them with my own two eyes and googled it with my own ten fingers.) I wish I still didn't know this. I thought perhaps I had left the fleas behind in the barnyard, but no, the bedding seems full of them. I was attacked again when I dumped the stuff in my compost bin yesterday. So now I have a compost bin that may as well be radioactive as far as I am concerned, and today I am thankful. Thankful for those small areas of my flesh which are not raised and itchy. Enjoy your Thanksgiving, everyone!
I put an ad on craigslist asking for chicken manure. A few years ago I got a truck load of horse manure/bedding for my garden and it worked out well. It was free and the guy loaded it into the truck with his tractor thing, and it was all good. And sure enough, there was a person who was happy to have me clean out their chicken coop. And it was all good. Until the itching started. FLEAS. Chickens can get fleas. I didn't know this. (Don't tell me it's mites or lice. I have seen them with my own two eyes and googled it with my own ten fingers.) I wish I still didn't know this. I thought perhaps I had left the fleas behind in the barnyard, but no, the bedding seems full of them. I was attacked again when I dumped the stuff in my compost bin yesterday. So now I have a compost bin that may as well be radioactive as far as I am concerned, and today I am thankful. Thankful for those small areas of my flesh which are not raised and itchy. Enjoy your Thanksgiving, everyone!
