Spring has us on it's typical up-and-down roller coaster ride once again this year, but we still feel way ahead of last year! Last year we had our "Snow Mountain Out" contest, with Snow Mountain being the mound of snow on the back of the house, where it piles up as it falls off our metal roof every winter. In the photo below, which I took this week, the snow is at about the … [Read more...]
Chicken Decor Galore! – With Art in a Sec
When we got our first chickens and I later bought my first "chicken decor" for the house, I swore at the time I was not going to get carried away with it; there would only be one or two chickens in our house. After all, I have plenty of pretty chickens to look at outside. Famous last words, right? As it turns out the decor seems to be just as addictive as the birds … [Read more...]
Nature & Farm Friday – Snow Birds
Mother Nature still has on a roller coaster ride that will be taking us right into March. Yesterday it was raining most of the morning, quite hard at times, and then before the storm ended, there was a little bit of snow. We chose many of the chicken breeds for the farm that we did because of their winter-hardiness. However, even though they can survive our cold New … [Read more...]
Farm Friday – Dust-Up!
What is that cloud in the barn? That's not smoke, is it? No worries, it is not, it's just a cloud of dust! One of the chickens is taking a dust bath in the bucket of wood ash left in the barn! It's completely cooled, of course, when it's hot it is in the covered metal bucket. Once it's cooled the Dadz dumped it into an old trash can. The chickens found … [Read more...]
Release the Hens!
If I ever have doubts as to the wisdom of letting our chickens and guinea hens free-range, they are erased whenever I watch them exiting their coop and run in the morning. The short video below is a good example of the morning let out. The guinea hens are already singing their happiness because they know it's time. The driveway was a little icy on this morning, and you … [Read more...]
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