Archive for 'Hatching'
Posted: March 23rd, 2008 by
Frank
Spring is oh so slowly coming. The twice weekly storms are more rain than snow, and I can leave the hose out to water the animals. We had the same temperatures in December, but the December sun was not enough to thaw the hose in the afternoon, while the March sun does.
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Posted under Building, Chickens, Farm Life, Hatching, Horses, Planting, maple syrup.
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Posted: October 29th, 2007 by
Frank
We’re deep into building our second sheep shelter. The ones we built three years ago went up faster, but they were smaller and had no floor, which meant they couldn’t be moved later. These have a double floor on 6×6 skids, which doubles the amount of lumber involved although not the build time. Framing
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Posted under Building, Hatching, butcher.
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Posted: May 1st, 2007 by
Lisa
That’s my girl, giving me my first two ewe lambs of the season. Perfect! My favorite and most tame sheep gives me girls, yay! She’ll show them the ropes, and keeping them tame won’t be hard at all. Way to go, Minxy! She had them both cleaned off and claimed, great for a first
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Posted under Chickens, Farm Life, Hatching, Honey Bees, Lambs, Trailer, Weeding, mega-catch, tulips.
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Posted: April 11th, 2007 by
Lisa
I’m a bit tired of this prolonged winter. The snow was almost gone when we got this recent coldsnap and accompanying snow. The puppy loves it, of course, and I should be used to it, but we have so much to do that needs good weather that I’m getting frustrated. My to-do list just
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Farm Life, Garden Shed, Gardenporn, Greenhouse, Hatching, Horses, Reviews, Sheep, Sheep Sheds, Snow, Window Boxes, Yoda.
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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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