Animals
- The Randomness Continues
First, I'd like to wish you Happy July!! I think perhaps the theme of this entire week might be completely random.You see, as I go about my work around the farm each day,a lot of little things catch my eye and I think of sharing them with you. If...
- Picture This!
Thanks so much for all of yesterday's fly-repelling solutions...it's good to know that I'm not the only one struggling with these awful creatures! I mentioned in the past that I had given serious consideration to trying to write...
- Happy Independence Day
I've come to the conclusion that I re-arrange chickens like some women re-arrange their furniture. The most recent relocation project was to separate the hens from the roosin that new batch of chicks that I started in the beginning of April....
- Chicken Movers
Yesterday was a big day for Rod Stewart and his hens.This group of chickens has called the chicken house and yard by the barn homefor the past 4 years.Yesterday was moving day. We decided that in preparation for housing our new young henswe would need...
- This Is What We Call The Muppet Show!!!!
I have to tell you...I am happily riding along in the ebb and flow of farm life once again. Up with the sun (and the rooster's crow),I pull on my jeans and tee shirt and head out for a day of farm chores...happier than a pig in mud! The farm is...
Animals
Chicken Dynamics
Happy Monday!
After a week with lots and lots of company...each and every day,
I am spending this coming week getting caught up on garden work.
It's time to tear out the spring plants and get boxes ready for fall planting.
We've had a lot of rooster activity in the past few days.
After refusing to leave his house for the past two weeks, Milford has been moved...
to the barn.
Hubbs took him by gator....
and released him to run free around the barn.
He met the horses,
and was shown where to find his meals.
At first he was a bit timid and retreated to the safety of a pine tree by the barn.
Later in the day, however, he relaxed and bit
and started investigating.
The guineas on the other side of the garden fence were a curiosity.
When the sun went down, Hubbs picked him up
(he is actually quite friendly, and let Hubbs pick him up)
and put him in the feed room in the barn.
Hopefully he will find a comfy bale of hay for the night.
As for the rest of the roos....
They are all finally outside spending the day together.
Millard and Milroy have moved into the Frat House with Statler and Waldorf.
Milton and George continue to roost in the brooder house.
I have a feeling that a few weeks from now all of the roos will be living in the Frat House
together.
We continue to pick our blueberry bushes daily.
The freezer is full of berries for use throughout the winter.
And it won't be long before we'll be harvesting sweet, juicy watermelons...
and pumpkin babes for making pumpkin pies!
I hope to have a well manicured garden to show you later this week.
Right now, though, it's a little wild and wooly!!
- The Randomness Continues
First, I'd like to wish you Happy July!! I think perhaps the theme of this entire week might be completely random.You see, as I go about my work around the farm each day,a lot of little things catch my eye and I think of sharing them with you. If...
- Picture This!
Thanks so much for all of yesterday's fly-repelling solutions...it's good to know that I'm not the only one struggling with these awful creatures! I mentioned in the past that I had given serious consideration to trying to write...
- Happy Independence Day
I've come to the conclusion that I re-arrange chickens like some women re-arrange their furniture. The most recent relocation project was to separate the hens from the roosin that new batch of chicks that I started in the beginning of April....
- Chicken Movers
Yesterday was a big day for Rod Stewart and his hens.This group of chickens has called the chicken house and yard by the barn homefor the past 4 years.Yesterday was moving day. We decided that in preparation for housing our new young henswe would need...
- This Is What We Call The Muppet Show!!!!
I have to tell you...I am happily riding along in the ebb and flow of farm life once again. Up with the sun (and the rooster's crow),I pull on my jeans and tee shirt and head out for a day of farm chores...happier than a pig in mud! The farm is...