Got chicken chores this weekend.
Taking tarp down to lower half in front and back.Keeping sides on in case of stray rain/snow. I feel my chickens are being spoiled. Kicking ducks out of the coop as well. They need a bath *pu!
Guineas are staing in as well as quail roos. Must make my silkie partition in the run.It will be 4'x4'x7' area for 2 hens and roo-boy.Then clean out their coop and give the bedding to the compost heap.Then get it red-eye for a makeshift brooder and use the black silkie as a surrogate.
Need to clean out the brooder/surrogate coop on the ground for gruesome and the dark cornish chicks comming.Gruesome was a great surrogate momma for the guineas,so she has work still.
Then the original coop needs retrofitted for the broodies.Ill make 5 broody sections in it for my 5 broodies.
Im making a solar pop can heater this weekend to see if it will work for our greenhouse,then transferring it to the greenhouse.
Next is to make a compost tumbler frame out of pine pallet wood.I bought a rotor and a iron axle bar that Im going to weld together to insert into the 55 gallon plastic drum to serve as a wheel to tumble my compost.
Then have to make the redworm bin out of the 55 gallon plastic drum I already cut in 1/2. one has mealworms in it already. I have cardboard already soaking from last rain,shredded paper from paid bills,some tipsoil dirt,and got to get chichen poop and composted pine shavings out of coop and garden for them buggers. Then screen them in and cover them with a saved dumor 50lb bag as a tarp.
all the while drink beer.might get drunk,might not.
Taking tarp down to lower half in front and back.Keeping sides on in case of stray rain/snow. I feel my chickens are being spoiled. Kicking ducks out of the coop as well. They need a bath *pu!
Guineas are staing in as well as quail roos. Must make my silkie partition in the run.It will be 4'x4'x7' area for 2 hens and roo-boy.Then clean out their coop and give the bedding to the compost heap.Then get it red-eye for a makeshift brooder and use the black silkie as a surrogate.
Need to clean out the brooder/surrogate coop on the ground for gruesome and the dark cornish chicks comming.Gruesome was a great surrogate momma for the guineas,so she has work still.
Then the original coop needs retrofitted for the broodies.Ill make 5 broody sections in it for my 5 broodies.
Im making a solar pop can heater this weekend to see if it will work for our greenhouse,then transferring it to the greenhouse.
Next is to make a compost tumbler frame out of pine pallet wood.I bought a rotor and a iron axle bar that Im going to weld together to insert into the 55 gallon plastic drum to serve as a wheel to tumble my compost.
Then have to make the redworm bin out of the 55 gallon plastic drum I already cut in 1/2. one has mealworms in it already. I have cardboard already soaking from last rain,shredded paper from paid bills,some tipsoil dirt,and got to get chichen poop and composted pine shavings out of coop and garden for them buggers. Then screen them in and cover them with a saved dumor 50lb bag as a tarp.
all the while drink beer.might get drunk,might not.
