Category: Farming

  • Warmer temperatures, and laying, right around the corner

    The weather [weather.com] is forecasting warmer temperatures for the next few nights than they were last week. That means that we won’t be below freezing at all, if it turns out that way. That’s good news for hens and plants. The Weeping Willow tree is putting out it’s greenery, and a few other trees are…

  • They are here!

    We got the hens tonight. They are sweet looking. Leghorns, ten of them. They are in the pen, with the traveling dog kennel in the pen with them, the kennel is what they came home with us in. We gave them water and mash, and opened the door. One brave soul ventured forth rather quickly,…

  • A First for us — chickens

    Last evening Frank and I banged out three and a half sides for our new chicken pen. The night before that we did the first half of one, and figured out what we were going to build, the design of it, that is. This is our first farming structure! We used lumber from our house,…