So it’s been awhile since I’ve been here (2 years🥲), but baby Kathleen is now 4 years old and we moved! We went from Ray county Missouri to Cedar county, it’s almost 200 miles distance. We now live on 5 acres in a shed to house conversion. The picture is Kathleen with my neighbors bottle calf.
I didn’t see this until the 21st but today it’s sunny skies and then thunderstorms. I planted my garlic and onions and hoping to squeeze in some cukes and zukes while the baby naps.
For an update on the coop. We got a heated pipe wire, wrapped in yellow insulation and gorilla tape. The girls are loving the new coop and I’m getting plenty of eggs in the nest box. They love being able to forage instead of the dirt that they had.
I would love that! It’s one of the reasons I joined this forum and started my blog. I love meeting people of like minds. I’ll go through and list what I have so you can get an idea
The frame for the coop itself was free and the waterer is gonna be the cup attached to a pipe. Still brainstorming how to keep it from freezing. I was thinking a bottle filled with basically homemade sea water lol. Or I heard of a metal rod that heats up to keep birdbaths from freezing but I’d...
Well I’m off work tomorrow and I’ve got a small stock of newspaper. I’m gonna layer the newspaper around my established plants and get them nice and wet before covering with compost. Then the bed that has nothing in it will get a bunch of compost in preparation for my Brussel sprouts. Then...