Garden

Here is our garden!! ...Hope you can read that, it's only half, but has the basic plants/veggies.

A different angle.
And the corn! This garden is the same size as the other.
Our lovely scare crow. We used a T-shirt, garden gloves, yarn for hair, streamers and a pie pan (for extra scaring!) She- or him?? It doesn't really have much of a face, though. I bet the crows won't care!

~chickengirl~

Veggies, Chickens, and Summer; Oh My!

Today we worked almost all day on our garden. We pulled up weeds and spread old bedding/straw from a brooder around tomatoes. The chickens definitely enjoyed having the weeds tossed into their cage!! One garden consists of lettuce, tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, and onions. In a second square of dirt is our corn. Everything is looking wonderful, and the lettuce is fabulous! A scarecrow was put up, then decorated with a T-shirt, red yarn for hair, streamers from a kite, gardening gloves, and tin pans hanging from 'her' arms.

We now actually have two or three setting hens: the heritage RIR that has hatched 5 chicks, a Silkie hen, and the white Cornish (which, if you don't mind me being self-expressive, I think that Cornish are a pretty ugly and weird looking breed...oh well, she was free!). We moved the RIR from the rabbit cage that she's been staying in to the watering trough, so that her two chickies would have room to stretch if they wanted. Then we put the Cornish into the rabbit cage with her eggs. After some persistent begging and pleading and pushing and shoving, she settled down on the nest finally! The Silkie chicks are doing fine, and I haven't seen any pips in the other eggs. I wish we had a candler so that I could check fertility! The closest I've got is a flashlight in the laundry room....

I'm glad that it's finally almost summer. I can go outside in shorts! No more sweaters or jackets, sweats or long pants. And the best part, I can walk barefoot around the yard. Not so much in the chicks coop, or the chicken coop, but around the yard. We've been letting the chickens (not Silkies/OEGB) out into the yard, and they love that as much as I love them. The two golden laced Polish are the funniest things (other than the ducks), as they run like mad women when anything like the door slams or a motorcycle goes by happens!

Not much else is planned for a while. I have a couple weeks free, till something big. Tomorrow we may go strawberry picking. Yuuummmy! I wanna make some jam!

~chickengirl~

Kittens

Sophia moved her kittens. We were afraid that she had moved them outside, but this morning we found them up in our loft. The poor things were pretty hungry, so I got Sophia and practically drug her up there. I'm serious, she thinks mothering is a 'part-time job'!! They sure are getting bigger...Just like the chicks.
I have a white Cochin in my lap, and she looks like a mini-chicken! Most of them have all of their feathers, and really need a coop, ASAP!! They're stinking up the garage and need feeding/watering about twice a day, for each batch.
*sigh* And guess who gets to do it? Me. Of course.

~chickengirl~