Melons and hens

I got a few watermelons this year, that was exciting.  Yellow flesh and pink flesh melons. Watermelons before:And after:And a little later:The chickens love their melons.Speaking of melons - a bucket of cucamelons.  Weird little things, supposed gourmet items, exTREMEly productive. They are starting to fall off in the GH, raining like hail.  To the pigs, as usual.A rubber egg, almost perfectly intact.That won't last long The hens are enthusiastically emptying out the bucket of greens.  Chard and green cabbage yes, celery and red cabbage, no thanks. They have to reach down a bit farther.  This little beast, the Deputy, lower right, thinks he's the big king now.Look at all those ladies he's managing.  This is the second in command Silkie rooster, who has recently decided to organize the house hens - the layer hens who hang around our house, mooching and sunning in the paths.  Now he thinks he's a big boss.  Some of them even let him mate them, which is truly awkward.  He's so small, sometimes he tips over and falls off of them.  If hens could roll their eyes.The Colonel concerns himself with his own breed, and the young Ameracuana roos that are coming up haven't come into their oats yet and are still meek.