I, for one, am glad we live so far north during this extended North American heatwave. It’s still miserably hot during the day, but as soon as the sun goes …
It’s a little milestone, but it still counts! The chicks have graduated to poultry grower feed, from the medicated poultry starter feed that they’ve eaten since we brought them home. …
We learn the weirdest things when we start something new. What seems completely obvious in hindsight can be completely missed in the start up phase, while there’s other things that …
It’s amazing how fast kids grow. All kids. But chicks, they almost literally change every time you look at them. The chicks are about 5 weeks old, we’ve had them …
I hope all my readers had a happy Mother’s Day! I got my garden (back)! We rented a rototiller and the husband, the kids, and I were able to get …
The chicks are starting to explore and get used to all the sounds and sights in their new world. They still startle but don’t get quite so frantic when the …
The chicks got to go “outside” for the first time today, and we also put together a roost for them!
This week we put together the chicken’s bucket feeder (still want a bucket waterer – soon!) and happily watched them start to use it. It’ll be much easier to fill …
Guys, it finally happened, we got chickens! We got word last week that we’d definitely be getting chicks from our neighbor, so we got to work converting half of our …
All of the productivity of a summer can seem to disappear in the blink of an eye. And we did have a mostly busy and productive summer, almost right up …
The benefits of electric fencing for livestock far, far, outweigh the jolt an animal (or careless, or acting on a dare, human) receives on contact with a wire. Electric fences …