I walked up on a hen with poults in a clover patch this morning. She was hunkered down and I got within 15' of her before she jumped up. The poults were under her and scattered, so I backed out and got away without taking pictures, but they looked like they had just hatched.

I start seeing them here in northern Coosa county around May 10 most years, so these are right on schedule. I've never seen any in April on this place, but I have in Perry county.


All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.