What's happening around the farm.
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, Vegetables on May 3rd, 2011
I beat the rain yesterday on some things: seeded carrots, beets, salad mix, radishes, salad turnips, cilantro, and dill in the field. Transplanted broccoli, lettuce, raab, kohlrabi. It wasn’t quite dry enough to disk beds in prep for laying mulch. I have onion transplants in the walkin cooler that really need to be planted, and [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, General on Apr 15th, 2011
We’ve made lots of progress since the last post, but I haven’t taken many photos so didn’t post. Maybe I’ll catch you up over the weekend. We have a new tractor, with bucket, with forks, 4 wheel drive. Tony couldn’t get the old 2 wheel drive John Deere through the mud to the hen camper [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese on Apr 3rd, 2011
4 p.m. and all the birds went in happily, often on their own, in the winter. I never did get all the mussies in tonight, though since I suspect owls are still hungry I would like to. Waited until almost too dark, put on crocks and thought/hoped they would be in. Slipped and slid through [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, Vegetables on Mar 16th, 2011
Moved the chicks out of the basement yesterday. Yea. Well, it was nice having them there to go down and look at frequently, but they have stirred up a layer of peat moss on everything down there, are getting enough feathers that very soon they will be producing their own “dust” of feather bits, and [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese on Mar 12th, 2011
After what seems like months of the ducks and geese very uncharacteristically staying inside day and night, they have decided it is time to roam. Yesterday was the first day since, gee, when was the last time we didn’t have snow cover?, they adventured. I have cajoled them out to a little area in front [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese on Oct 16th, 2010
We thought we were keeping a good eye on the adult muscovies, to not have late August or September babies as we did last year. One mama paraded 11 new ducklings before us on October 7, and today another brought 2 more out. This means we will be overwintering young, who will probably make more [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, General on Jul 19th, 2010
Until the last couple weeks, all the rain went around us and we were extremely dry. I am grateful for today’s rain, though it put a halt to field work. We butchered chickens this morning, starting at 5:30, finished about 10, except still have to put stuff away. They are chilling/draining in the cooler so [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, Vegetables on Apr 7th, 2010
Well, the chicks awaiting part is actually ducklings awaiting. Mama muscovy has gotten serious about setting, but in about 35 days we should have baby ducklings. At least one goose is pretty serious. I say pretty serious because she is very protective, but not setting tight all the time yet. Our first batch of broiler [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, Vegetables on Mar 29th, 2010
Here is a link to a recording of the sounds trees make as water moves inside. The sounds attract insects, which in turn attract birds. Fun and interesting, and read the information before listening. The Sounds of Trees Popping – Boing Boing
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese on Mar 19th, 2010
Well, the weather is about to turn around, but it has been enjoyable. Since we were waiting on a tractor part, I did not get to take advantage of this weather to do any field work, but did stay busy. I visited/worked on two vegetable farms yesterday. These are very well run farms, whose owners [...]
