Archive for 'Birds'
Posted: December 21st, 2008 by
Lisa
There’s a cool group on Flickr called A day in the life. Four times a year, at the start of the new season, people from around the world submit five photos (and an optional one video) to the pool documenting that day. I started in the spring this year, so have 2008’s season changes all
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Posted under Cow, Dogs, Ducks, Geese, Horses, Pigs, Sheep, Turkeys.
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Posted: December 20th, 2008 by
Lisa
The chicken coop is so much prettier now that it’s painted. I hated hated hated the particle board that we used, but it was a time of year that we didn’t have our own wood and needed it in a real hurry. We built it in March of 2007. I wonder why our sawmill
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Posted under Chickens, Eggs.
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Posted: December 17th, 2008 by
Lisa
What an awful night I had last night. Usually if the pigs are out at night, they bed down somewhere and snooze the night away. Not last night, though. At midnight, I heard the sheep go off and went out to explore. The pigs had knocked over a panel where the sheep were and the
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Posted under Cow, Ducks, Geese, Pigs, Sheep.
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Posted: December 1st, 2008 by
Lisa
We got a dusting of snow last night. According to all of the weather gurus I could find, it promised to melt, and I took them at their word. The pups were in heaven. The waterfowl? They’d never seen snow before, and the verdict is that they don’t like it. Oops. Too bad you live in New Hampshire, huh?!
Posted under Geese.
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Posted: September 20th, 2008 by
Lisa
I found this group of 20 hens destined for slaughter do to their "advanced" age of 18 months. They are some sort of improved Rhode Island Reds. They lay a huge brown egg. They cost me $2 each. With 7 mouths to feed now, including Grandma Ginny who would happily eat 6 of
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Posted under Chickens.
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Posted: July 15th, 2008 by
Lisa
Water for all the critters is something that takes up small chunks of time all day long. I must fill water buckets for everyone at least four times a day. I wonder about bigger containers, but the pigs flip theirs so quickly and Albus sits or lays in his that bigger doesn’t help. Since
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Posted under Ducks, Geese, Pigs, Sheep, water.
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Posted: June 7th, 2008 by
Lisa
The Small and Beginning Farmers Association of New Hampshire (SBFNH) owns bird processing equipment that once you’ve been trained on it, you can reserve it when you need it and bring it to your own place to process your own birds. We’d been looking at building our own plucker in particular, because the stuff
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Posted under Chickens.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008 by
Lisa
I am so enjoying having these little turkeys around. They have so much personality! This one here sits on my lap, likes to be cuddled, and even cuddles up and naps with the pup. Too cute. The whole flock of them follow me around on the farm any time I’m out there. They also
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Posted under Turkeys.
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Posted: April 27th, 2008 by
Frank
Lisa and I both noticed that the eggshells have been getting a bit thin in the last week or so. I hypothesize that this is because the hens have switched from living on layer pellets to foraging which they find far yummier. However layer pellets are fortified with calcium while bugs are apparently not. I
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Posted under Chickens, Ducks, Eggs, Geese, Turkeys.
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Posted: April 18th, 2008 by
Frank
We’ve had entire week of warm and dry weather, which is good because we have a million things to do. The waterfowl went outside last weekend, in electric poultry netting. They started with a dogloo for shelter, yesterday we added a dog crate so the ducks and geese each have their own digs. They’re
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Posted under Carrots, Ducks, Frogs, Geese, Honey Bees, Icelandic, Lettuce, Mice, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Turkeys, parsnips, spinach.
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