Potato blooms in the garden
May 18th, 2012
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Putting a new roof on the chicken shed
May 18th, 2012
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Through a little barter I was able to get enough metal roofing to fix the roof on the old chicken house. It’s two different colors but I doubt the chickens will care. We need to install the ridge cap and trim everything to length. Once this is finished I hope to add gutter to fill rain barrels.
Our chicks are 6 weeks old
May 14th, 2012
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I’ve been letting them out the last three days. Today they’re actually venturing out and doing a little foraging. They’re doing amazing well and getting along with the big chickens.
Categories: Animals, Chickens, Home, Homesteading, Prepardness chickens, chicks, laced, silver, Wyandotte
Sugar Ann heirloom peas
May 14th, 2012
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Setting up a larger mess free chicken waterer
May 9th, 2012
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The chicks are going through about two and a half bottles of water so I decided to move up to something larger. We cleaned up an old gallon jug and added two nipples and a fill hole. This should last much longer than the Gatorade bottle we were previously using.
Mulberries are turning red
May 7th, 2012
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They’re turning red and will be purple soon. The chickens will be delighted when they begin dropping to the ground.
Our silver laced Wyandotte chicks are doing well
May 7th, 2012
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Chicks learning to use the mess free watering system
May 5th, 2012
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I spent some time laying in the shade next to our chicken tractor and 19 silver laced Wyandotte chicks today trying to encourage them to use their waterer. After tapping the nipple several times and getting drops of water to hang off the end the began to peck at it. Hopefully before long they’ll all be using it and I won’t need to goof with a traditional waterer.
Tree frog
May 5th, 2012
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Sidney caught a tree frog and brought it around for a couple of pictures before turning it loose. These are some pretty cool creatures.
Brinsea Mini Advantage Incubator
May 4th, 2012
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Our incubator just arrived! We won’t be hatching a bunch at one time so we decided on the Brinsea Mini Advanced. It’s automated, self turning and has several other automated features. What I am most excited about is the girls will be able to easily observe the hatching process through the clear plastic cover!
As we get it unpacked and setup I’ll add more pictures.
UPDATE: 5May12 – just put 7 mixed breed duck eggs in the incubator! The other 5 are going in with my moms peacock eggs.
