This Week

It’s been a busy week but I did squeeze in some hill time to go from this… 

To this. A bit more picking to do but getting there. 

The sun doesn’t come over the mountain until about 8:30 now. It’ll be after 9:00 Dec 21. 

Sent some extra cockerels off to freezer camp

Doing chores by headlamp in the morning sucks but the sunrise is pretty 

Made a yummy cheesecake from chèvre. Cheated and bought crust. Did you know they come in pecan now? It’s so yellow from my egg yolks. 

This poor chicken had a bad case of fowl pox but also somehow it’s eye is infected. Not sure it’s going to make it but she’s up eating and drinking so I’m doctoring. 

Mmmm. Posie your legs are just too short. I did find my beat up, dented 40 year old milk pail. It’s a bit shorter than this new one so using it now. The new one is fine under big tall goats but Posie has really short legs. 

I worked a bit getting grass out of this bed. Will take a few days before it’s all done and ready to plant again. 

Mmm. Pulled some carrots to cook. Not sure if they have nematode damage at all, it doesn’t look like it although forked roots can be a symptom these look more like the soil is not deep enough. I should probably double dig these beds before I try carrots again. 

And I found a heart rock  

#appreciation

Today I appreciate that the weather has been really nice. 

10/10/19 the days work

Little chick is doing better so back to the coop. 

Time for grit for all the pens and oyster shell for the layers. 

Even little chicks need grit to properly digest their food. 

I added holes around the side of the bucket for making compost extract. I also put in less compost so it wasn’t so heavy when wet. 

The bucket with compost inside the barrel. Add water and stir. 

After sitting a bit and a lot of stirring to keep it oxygenated take it out and pour around plants. 

Theses radishes got some today. They are not as dark a green as I’d like to see. 

Time to clean coops. 

And make a new compost pile. 



Mmmmmm. I’d say not all of my sexed pullets are pullets! That one on the right is a cockerel while that’s a pullet to the left. 

Time to get some stuff out of the van. 

Found an old fence panel to cover the last gap. Now to wait for blue stake to mark the gas line so I can set the other post for the driveway gates. Almost there just keep on trucking. 

Spent the afternoon taking Giotto to the vet for his ear infection. It started in his right ear but now it’s in his left. 

Dropped Giotto off at home and went to the grocery store. Then home to do chores. Look a little silkie eggs. Not sure who’s laying in that pen. By the way the white cockerel, a black cockerel with a single comb and the 4 partridge are for sale.  Not show quality (poor crests and red faced) but nice pets or showmanship birds. 

And now it’s time for food and bed.