On Friday and Saturday, the builder guy came back to do some finishing touches on the coop, not least of which were the egg doors. He and I both kind of had the idea to have little mis-matched doors on the back of each nesting box so that eggs can be collected without having to [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Egg Doors
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Go Back to the Coop? No Thanks, We Live in the Blackberries Now.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today a funny thing happened.
The guy who did the construction work on converting our shed into a coop and run (fortress) came back today to do a few finishing touches. He previously hadn’t finished a few little things by the original deadline of the chicks’ two-week-old birthday, when they moved into the coop. Once they were in [...]
Hot Weather & The Pecking Order
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This will be a quick post, unfortunately, because even though I promised, I really don’t have very many pictures or stories. :::cringe::: Don’t hate me! I’m sorry! I’ll do my best to get more soon.
Garden News
Over the weekend, we actually had “hot” weather – it got up over 80 degrees on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday [...]
An Historic Moment – Caught on Film!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This morning I went out with my camera in an attempt to catch JB’s crowing on film. Of course, he did it like 5 times in a row before I could start filming, and then he shut up. But as I was standing there, filming, trying to convince him to crow [...]
Acting Like Grown-Ups
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The weather around here is starting to really improve, as you can see from my lovely sunny pic of one of my Marans ladies. We had on and off sun and rain this week and after rain this morning and afternoon, it cleared up into a lovely, sunny evening. The chickies all love the sun [...]
