It’s looking to be an interesting spring. At least the chickens will be happy. We even may get a head start on the WEF’s plans for us all. YUMMY!!!
“Get ready for the rarest of rare cicada events. Thomas Jefferson was President the last time this happened and Michigan wasn’t even a state. And no one alive today will be around the next time this happens. Not one, but two different cicada broods will emerge this year, reports NPR.
We’re talking billions and billions of the insects. They will be all over the place from late April through June. One of the broods of cicadas lives on a 13-year cycle. The other lives on a 17-year one. Both will emerge at the same time this year, something which hasn’t happened since 1803″.
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Well, dip those suckers in chocolate this spring and you can eat as well as your chickens😉
Coincidentally, just today we figured out what our our fresh egg supply was costing us and I had to do a double take. If selling, we’d need to charge at least DOUBLE store price to break even. I knew natural/organic was going to drive it up but that surprised me some. Then, we realized winter costs are higher (fewer eggs) as well as lack of natural foraging – grubs, worms etc. So, besides the 5-6 week break we’ll get with the cicada invasion, they’ll be feasting on the daily smorgasbord I scoop out of the pool each morning. Either way, it’s still well worth it as they are so superior to store bought eggs. (I sound like a snob, don’t I?).
I’ve heard the home-laid eggs are better but I will have to compare them side by side to see for myself. I’m sure I’ll get the chance this summer at Joshs’
We had a feral hog prob in our neighb and they had to call in trappers. They really messed up some yards on the fringes.
Heard they are digging up the cicadas that “are working their way up from the depths of hell”. I’m finding very few signs of anything dug up so was mostly our dogs digging and our visitor was nothing more than the neighbors pig that got loose.