Category: Farming

  • Eggs for Valentine’s Day 2005

    2-14-2005 Egg Count: 7:50 AM – 1 Brown (very warm when gotten then, so not a hen that laid yesterday 🙂 ) 11:00 AM – 1 Brown (slightly warm when gotten) 12:15 PM – 1 Green (very warm when gotten, and an Australorp on top of it) 1:15 PM – 1 Brown (slightly warm when…

  • Eggs for Sunday – The Lord’s Day Feb 13 2005

    2-13-2005 Egg Count: 9:00 AM – 1 Brown (Australorp freshly laid, “caught in the act” 🙂 ) 1:45PM – after arriving home from morning church: 3 Brown, 1 White Total Thus Far: 5 I’m fairly confident that the hens are all getting into Spring Laying now. It’ll be a slow upward moving trend, but it’s…

  • Eggs for Feb 12, 2005

    2-12-2005 Egg Count: PM – 1 White, 2 Brown Total: 3

  • Friday’s Fabulous Fowls

    2-11-2005 Egg Count: 10:00 AM – 1 green 12:50PM – 2 Brown, 1 White 3:15PM – 1 Brown Later PM – 1 Brown Total: 6 I fed the hens this very chilly morning (27 degrees, back down to Winter’s level again 😉 ). I opened the nest box door on the A-Frame pen, and was…

  • Surprise under A-Frame door

    2-10-2005 Egg Count: Collected in the PM – 7 Brown PM -2 White Total Eggs: 9 (not all from same day) I’ve had the children feeding the hens the last couple of days, or the last few or more … it’s now Thursday and I can’t quite recall :rolleyes: In any case I do think…

  • Many Things in One Post

    This is my “many things in one post” post. Weather, books, hens, wild birds, etc. The weather has turned mild again. Yesterday it was warm enough not to need a fire upon waking. Last night was warm too. It’s currently in the mid-50’s, and that’s without the sun’s aiding. It’s been mostly cloudy, morelike “light…

  • Eggs for Jan 23 2005

    1-23-2005 Egg Count: No eggs again today. [None yesterday: Jan 22 🙁 ] Total Eggs: 0 Don’t blame them today. It’s COLD! It was 19 degrees this morning when we finally got out of bed. Too cold to get up early. We were up by 9:30am. Wind chill was 7 degrees. Windy Cold day. How…

  • Eggs for Jan 22 2005

    1-22-2005 Egg Count: Total Eggs: 0 Frank and I just went out and checked for eggs, and there were none. That was 1:00 PM. The weather is rather nasty. It’s foggy/hazy very wet mist all the way to the ground, with everything coated with a light wet film of water. The air is supposedly 37…

  • Eggs for Jan 21 2005

    1-21-2005 Egg Count: 12:10 PM – 1 White 1.9 ounces 1:00 PM -1 White 1.9 ounces Total Eggs Thus Far: 2 I’ve checked for eggs a few times today, and there are none yet. Yesterday I collected a warm one at 11am. It’s now about 12pm, so maybe I’ll get something very soon. I just…

  • Wednesday and Thursday Eggs for Jan 19 and 20

    Estimate: 1-20-2005 Egg Count: 8:30 AM – 2 White 1.7 ounces, 2.1 ounces 11:00 AM – 1 White 2.4 ounces 11:45 AM – 1 Brown 1.8 ounces Total Eggs: 4 Estimate: 1-19-2005 Egg Count: 2 White Total Eggs: 2 note: 1 egg was frozen when found Eggs for yesterday and today are a bit confusing.…

  • Eggs for Jan 18 2005

    1-18-2005 Egg Count: 11:15 AM – 1 Brown 1.6 ounces Total Eggs Thus Far : 1 It’s cold. 18 degrees on the F. scale. Brrr! I’ve not donned the gear to trudge through the backyard to check the hens yet. Once I do, this is the post on which any findings will be reported. 🙂…

  • Eggs for Jan 17 2005

    1-17-2005 Egg Count: 10:00 AM – 1 White 1.8 ounces 12:30 PM – 1 White 1.9 ounces Total Eggs : 2 It’s a cold day. It was in the 20’s last night, and supposed to be around 39 for a high today. It’s not bitterly cold though, fairly a mild cold. It’s creeping into the…

  • Saturday and Sunday Eggs and more

    1-16-2005 Egg Count: AM – 1 White 2.1 ounces PM – 1 White 1.8 ounces Total Eggs: 2 We are home this Sunday morning. Still drippy nosed and such, with Dh getting worse, me getting better. About the hens: On Saturday, yesterday, January 16, 2005 — there was an egg in the SuperYard, underneath the…

  • New Eggs

    I checked the hens this mid-morning, and they hadn’t laid anything. It’s 2:45pm and I just got back from checking, as I walked up to the A-Frame I saw that Hawklady was down on the ground. “Good,” I thought to myself, “she must have laid an egg.” Surprise, surprise, when I opened the nest loft…

  • Rain and Biddies

    There’s a big line of storms marching from West to East … USA. The southern line is near us. Fragments of storm have been around most of the day, but the heavy line is coming sooner than later. All day I’ve gone out now and then to check the hens, *looking for an egg!* but…

  • Another First Egg

    It’s 12:10pm, and I finally went out to feed the hennies. No green egg, but in the SuperYard nest box, there was a long skinny white egg! It’s been so long since any of them have laid. 🙂 I was glad to see their box filled with hay and a circular nest depression in it.…

  • First Egg of 2005

    Prize goes to — Hawklady! I was sluggish getting out to the hens today, and just finished re-haying the laying nest boxes and feeding them. This weekend I came down with a cold/virus, minor sore throat, allergy scratchylike really, on Friday, Saturday it was worse, but still not “cold like” but then woke up Sunday…

  • Weather stays mild; Hens

    The weather has been so very mild the last few weeks, and it’s continuing on. The current 15-day Outlook is giving us another week or more of this mild weather, with colder temps then coming in, but still only down to the mid-low-30’s at night, and into the low-50’s for day. Last year we didn’t…

  • Some Pics of the Occupied Pen

    I got outside earlier to take some pictures. I did it as fast as I could, the wind chill was something! Also, Lothar was acting WILD and really being a pest for attention and all I was out there to do was take a few pictures of the new pen and hens inside. Here’s him…

  • Cold and Hen Pens

    Oooh it’s a cold morning, and will be a cold day, just getting out of freezing maybe, maybe up to 38 degrees F. but then again, who knows. This is the country! I do mean: we are out in the boonies, ok? Weather people don’t have the snuff for what it takes to measure weather…