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
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
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