Homesteading

Farming, canning, chickens, preserving - little house style

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Vacation is over

Two eggs today. Stan gave them back their floor. Planted rest of tomatoes today. Stan put up one gutter on Thursday. Hopefully rest will go up this week

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Farm life

Fed fodder tot he animals. Mochi ate most of the greens. Added a treat bowl for the chickens. Added fodder , grub and mealworms to it. Chickens are coming out in the yard more often. Planted bush beans, pole beans and some tomatoes today

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Chicken fix

Read up on broody chickens so we are trying something else. Stan took away their floor and they aren't as comfortable. So today is day 1

Here's the info and here

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Potting bench

Stan finished the shelves on the potting bench. Yay. Now we just need to get the garden in order

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Repotting

Moved tomatoes yesterday from the 6 packs to red solo cups. Will do more today

Pampered hens

Feeding them whatever we can. They are eating the dried mealworms and scratch. They still don't want to come out

Egg count and chickens so far

Chickens arrived from Adrienne's laying one egg every few days. Started getting 2 eggs every so often on 11/28. Got three eggs on feb 23 and 4 eggs around march 9. There were 2-3 days with 4 eggs. They decided to go on vacation and stop laying around march 17 Nov 11 --> dec 31. 46 eggs Jan 1 --> feb 23. 35 eggs Feb 24 --> march 16. 41 eggs

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Fodder

Bought 50 lbs of malt barley seeds and treats for the chickens. Started soaking a batch od seeds tonight before bed