Haven't been around much due to the start of fall semester. I'm settling in to the new schedule, though.
My pullets are starting to get red in their combs. They need to start laying before the weather shifts. The older girls are starting to go into molt and I need those eggs!!!
Hubby hired summer help, and my gosh, what a difference a young man who is a competitive weight lifter can do!! He has hauled sand and re-bedded all but one of the chicken houses. We ran out of sand for that, but will get another load in. He has weeded, trimmed, weed-wacked, put up bird netting in the chicken houses, painted all but one outbuilding (That one had a garden spider we didn't want disturbed on it.)and basically worked his derriere off! He was a former student of my husband and they bumped into each other somewhere. He was telling Chris that he was looking for a short-term part-time job to supplement him until he moved this fall. He's a city boy, but when Chris offered manual labor on our place, he jumped on it. It is rather funny to see this big, muscular 24-year-old man cringe at a spider or a wasp, or anything else with lots of legs, but he's gotten past most of that over the summer. Will has made a huge difference for us this summer!
We are looking for bottle calves, if anyone knows where I might get them. Our previous source no longer has them. I want four.
Enjoy the day!
Hope everyone is doing well. Catch ya later!
