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Mama and her 2 babies are out of the small side yard for the first time today. Mom isn’t aggressive, I could pick her up and take her to eat in the evenings if I hadn’t seen her out all day and she was really sweet about it. She’s letting the chicks come close when I move their food and water back to their coop at night so she’s also pretty trusting. She’s been pretty friendly from the get go though. I am a little concerned about the lavender Orpington because she is considerably smaller than the EE chick still. She’s feathering out but more slowly. She can get around though. I was a little worried that she wouldn’t be able to get up onto the patio but she’s doing just fine.
We built a small roost in the shade garden for the volcano girls and removed the barrier that blocked any possible exit; they’re big enough they aren’t going to squeeze through chicken wire and growing like weeds. Last night was their first outside so no more stinky box in the laundry room. The plan is to let them out with the bigs by the end of the week.
Not too sure how well the garden is going to do, we’ve had some wild temperature swings and the forecast says 107 before the week is up
I’ll be canning this week to make room in the freezer for ice buckets. Not ready for those temps. I put in various starts and then our temps jumped to the mid 90’s. The tomatoes and zucchini are happy, but the basils bolted and are dead.
Will follow up with baby pics later.
We built a small roost in the shade garden for the volcano girls and removed the barrier that blocked any possible exit; they’re big enough they aren’t going to squeeze through chicken wire and growing like weeds. Last night was their first outside so no more stinky box in the laundry room. The plan is to let them out with the bigs by the end of the week.
Not too sure how well the garden is going to do, we’ve had some wild temperature swings and the forecast says 107 before the week is up
I’ll be canning this week to make room in the freezer for ice buckets. Not ready for those temps. I put in various starts and then our temps jumped to the mid 90’s. The tomatoes and zucchini are happy, but the basils bolted and are dead.Will follow up with baby pics later.
