Archive for 'Collecting'
Posted: August 26th, 2007 by
Frank
This weekend has been hazy hot and humid. The kind you’d much rather spend at the lake. However we got quite a bit done. I actually got the sawmill running Friday night. A new blade finally got it working. We got four logs done, then I had to change the blade again, and it’s
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Posted under Back Hoe, Bees, Building, Chickens, Collecting, Eggs, Honey Bees, Horse Housing, Lily beetles.
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Posted: May 26th, 2007 by
Lisa
Poor thing. She just hates everyone and everything right now. I’m trying to coddle her as much as I can, to not add to her stress. The current theory with what killed Mary is an overrun of a common bacteria that lives in their respiratory tract, and that can be caused by stress. The vet
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Posted under Chickens, Collecting, Compost, Eggs, Farm Life, Llama, Pearl, Pigs, Potatoes, Prince, Raised Beds, Red Scoop of Joy, Snakes, Tomatoes, Turtle, Valerie, Vegetables, illness.
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Posted: April 14th, 2007 by
Frank
Our four three-pound packs of bees arrived today. They usually show up a week or two late, but of course this year they came in right on time. Lisa was at a cheesemaking class, so I went down to Stonewall Farm to pick them up, after washing the hive-top feeders out with bleach to get
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Posted under Bees, Chickens, Collecting, Eggs, Honey Bees.
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Posted: March 31st, 2007 by
Frank
I cleaned up the other two hives today. Both had pollen but no honey left. Also both had mice in residence. I’m unsure of what happened to the first one I cleaned up. It may have starved, but it may also have succumbed to XXX and then been robbed. The second I’m pretty sure died
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Posted under Collecting, Eggs, Farm Life, Hay, Honey Bees, Horses, Mice, Pearl, Prince.
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Posted: March 28th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s all chickens, all the time, here lately. So far, we’ve hatched out 15 eggs. The first one came on day 19 after we put them in the incubator, so we were caught a little unprepared. We sort of assumed they would come on day 21. It said so on the label! It sounds
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Collecting, Eggs, Farm Life, Hatching.
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Posted: March 9th, 2007 by
Lisa
Adding chickens to the morning chores hasn’t been much of a change yet, but I guess that’s because there are only five of them, four hens and a rooster. It’s been really cold at night this week, getting down to -15 degrees, and when I went out to check on eggs yesterday, I
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Collecting, Dogs, Eggs, Farm Life, Hatching.
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