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Rain, Rain, Roadbase, Rain
Hi there! What a lot of rain we’ve had here over the past week or two! The creek is storming along at top speed and the entire place is squishy and slippery! The new roof, installed this past summer,...
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The Best Chicken Waterer Money can Buy
I like quality and the older I get, the more I like it. These days, I am also trying to buy less, andI don’t mind paying more if I know an item is going to work better and last longer. Naturally, when...
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The Pond
B dug me this tiny pond about ten years ago with his then-new tractor. Well established now, it’s lovely in all seasons. I think it has a bullfrog infestation this year. Maybe K and K will harvest frog...
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Almost Finished!
It was hot up on that barn roof today, Ryan nearly melted, but just look! We have a skookum new roof vent. Since the second year we bought our winter’s hay in June, the loft door has been tied open...
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Finished!
Just in time for this morning’s thunder, lightening and torrential rain, the barn is roofed! Big thanks to Ryan at Acadian Custom Renovations for another amazing job.
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Feathering My Nest
My generous family and friends often gift me tokens of my chicken addiction. Much as I love my birds, I don’t want a house filled with chicken memorabilia. But out at the coops, these chicken treasures...
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Alsty’s Setting Again
Alsty may be young, but she is proving herself to be one serious momma. After successfully raising 18 chicks, 10 of her own hatchlings plus an extra 8 incubator babies, and kicking them all to the curb...
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Hatching Season
Hatching season started in December this year, when the first batch of eggs went in the incubator for an early January hatch. At the height of the season, I had three incubators and a hatcher going...
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What Cat?
Everybody drinks out of the horse’s water trough. The chickens perch on the edge and admire their reflections. I caught Callie, sneaking a drink but poised to run if Chance should head her way. Well...
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Time for Breakfast
Each morning after chores, the dogs beeline ahead of me to the house and breakfast, Liza out in front. Over the bridge, Chance always sticks to the left side, avoiding the steel mesh footing. Full stop...
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First Taste of Free Ranging
The gold, silver and blue laced wyandotte teenagers got their freedom today. Most of the pullets and the very youngest cockerels stayed home and basked in the sun. But for the brave boys (and couple of...
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Meet David Cassidy!
This gorgeous young Swede has a whole flock of admiring young females, and some of the older ladies think he’s pretty hot too. On the petite side, like all Swedish Flower Hens, David may not be the...
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Hatch Day for Alsty
Alsty did it again. Four Swedish Flowers, two Polish, and two Hoppy babies! I knew I could trust good old Alsty. Tonight at dusk I will tiptoe out to her brooding pen with a bucket of nine. Nine more...
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Puppy Sitting
Our three kids were away this weekend at a music festival, so we puppy sat. Chance the dog-crazy dog was delighted to hang with his two favourite gals, Liza and Mocha, all weekend. Liza was much less...
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My Wyandotte Project
I always wanted to try Wyandottes, but after my sister got two Silver Laced Wyandotte chicks who grew up scrawny and mean and laid small eggs, I wasn’t so sure. After my research turned up a real mix...
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June Harvest
This week, I am freezing raspberries, chicken, garlic scrapes, plus K froze kale. We are picking strawberries and peas too. Yay June!
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Cistern Snail, Again
I am not sure if this guy was in the watering can or the cistern, but after I dipped, filled and emptied, there he was! Snails are so pretty, I can’t hurt them, I just relocate them. Yes, I know, I’m...
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Exploring the Barnyard
Alsty took her latest brood out for their first wander this evening. Peeping excitedly amongst themselves, the kids darted here and there, never going too far from mama. Alsty kept up a running...
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The Big Clean
I am happy to be at the tail end of this weekend, and absolutely knackered too, because this year, I deep cleaned all three coops in a single go. Vacuumed, scraped, scrubbed, power washed, swept, tore...
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Nice Dark Eggs
My January Black Copper Marans pullets have started laying, and I am really pleased with their egg colour. I hatched only the darkest eggs, and my rooster is from good dark egg lines. Looks like the...
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