Chicken update and persimmons

First, some pictures of the chickens, because we haven't posted pics of them in awhile. They're getting large and heavy.





Also, we have two persimmon trees on the property. Neither of us being from Indiana, Rog and I have been baffled by the persimmon craze here. From what people have been telling us, we're supposed to pick them off the ground when they fall... they fall off the tree when ripe. Well, there's a very fine line between on the ground and ripe and on the ground and rotten. They keep telling us the fruits all fall off after the first frost... well, we've had two good frosts now, and the trees have lost all their leaves, but the persimmons are clinging onto the trees. Whenever I go out there to see if there are enough to bother picking up I usually only get five or six. Then I throw them in to the chickens. The chickens love persimmons, ripe, rotten, stepped on, whatever.

Here's a picture of the bare trees, dotted with fruits that just will not come down.