Yep hawks are nasty here. So Sunday while I'm home from work... Horses get tied out to graze and chickens get to free range. So everyone is happy to see Sunday every week.
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Took this pic for all to enjoy. It looks so pretty against my flocks
Never mind stupid phone won't let me post pic.
Never mind stupid phone won't let me post pic.
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Two days after the hornets stings and I think I'm "Back in the Saddle Again". Cleaned the goats, rabbits, picked 2 - 5 gallon buckets of green beans, banana & jalapeno pepper. A bunch of cukes, and other stuff. A few quarts of blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. I'm beat. How about ya'll?
The hoeing, chopping, pulling, and sweating to keep the garden weed free now seems like little price now that the garden is producing in abundance. The summer squash has been producing for a couple of weeks but now is almost more than we can keep up with. We cut a lot of zuchinni and yellow squash into small pieces, arranged them on cookie sheets, froze them, and then freezer bagged them for future use. By flash freezing Hope can take out only what she wants for a particular meal without thawing a large package.
When I planted sweet corn I used four different varieties with different maturation dates. Each type was planted in compact rows to insure proper pollination and we will have corn ripening up to September.
Just came in from checking the incubator and the first chick has made its appearance. Hopefully the remaining 17 Welsummers will make their debut by morning.
When I planted sweet corn I used four different varieties with different maturation dates. Each type was planted in compact rows to insure proper pollination and we will have corn ripening up to September.
Just came in from checking the incubator and the first chick has made its appearance. Hopefully the remaining 17 Welsummers will make their debut by morning.
I like to flash freeze pieces on a cookie sheet then toss them into a bag.The hoeing, chopping, pulling, and sweating to keep the garden weed free now seems like little price now that the garden is producing in abundance. The summer squash has been producing for a couple of weeks but now is almost more than we can keep up with. We cut a lot of zuchinni and yellow squash into small pieces, arranged them on cookie sheets, froze them, and then freezer bagged them for future use. By flash freezing Hope can take out only what she wants for a particular meal without thawing a large package.
When I planted sweet corn I used four different varieties with different maturation dates. Each type was planted in compact rows to insure proper pollination and we will have corn ripening up to September.
Just came in from checking the incubator and the first chick has made its appearance. Hopefully the remaining 17 Welsummers will make their debut by morning.
Good luck on your hatch...what's kind of egg is in the upper left of pic?
I got called in to work, sun. Another job i'd not have done it but this is a startup company, pays ridiculous, and treats me great! So i went (2nd)
The aforementioned hawks made their appearance today as soon as i let my ee trio out.
no one was hurt but asthose 2 girls are not able to be picked up anytime off the ground like my other two i had to play around the mulberry bush/coop with dh standing guard. Must've been a scene!!! My roo is a good boy he let me pick him up cause he's no dummy! Big hawk, stripe tail 100 yards out in a tree landed and waited for a false move. Blasted hawks and coon! At least the coyote moved on.
The aforementioned hawks made their appearance today as soon as i let my ee trio out.
no one was hurt but asthose 2 girls are not able to be picked up anytime off the ground like my other two i had to play around the mulberry bush/coop with dh standing guard. Must've been a scene!!! My roo is a good boy he let me pick him up cause he's no dummy! Big hawk, stripe tail 100 yards out in a tree landed and waited for a false move. Blasted hawks and coon! At least the coyote moved on.
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Opa.... that is one cool looking Wellie egg!
In my junior coop the pullets have started laying .....adding new colors to my basket.
My first eggs from chooks hatched or raised from chicks here.
Olive egger (amberlink and EE cross I hatched from a friends eggs) started two weeks ago with an amazing olive tone..shifting to green and now more olive again.
....and the Wellie pullet I bought as a 3 week old from a local 'breeder', started a week ago. First 2 were disappointingly light but seem to be gaining color....a 5th, not shown here, is as dark as the 4th.
I find it endlessly fascinating to observe their progress.
In my junior coop the pullets have started laying .....adding new colors to my basket.
My first eggs from chooks hatched or raised from chicks here.
Olive egger (amberlink and EE cross I hatched from a friends eggs) started two weeks ago with an amazing olive tone..shifting to green and now more olive again.
....and the Wellie pullet I bought as a 3 week old from a local 'breeder', started a week ago. First 2 were disappointingly light but seem to be gaining color....a 5th, not shown here, is as dark as the 4th.
I find it endlessly fascinating to observe their progress.
I am setting setting up an incubator run as well, did not get enough replacement pullets this spring. When I am done, I will have a quad of Cream Legbars available - rooster from 3rd line GFF, and 3 hens, all 1 to 1 1/2 years old, if anyone is interested. The hens lay very well, nice blue eggs (one of my 5 currently laying has a blue-green egg). PM me if interested.
Is it normal for chickens to just stand out in the rain?
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