The baby chicks moved out! My house no longer smells like chicken poop…hooray! The big hens love their new boxes and the chicks are enjoying having more space. Dad did a wonderful job hanging it up and in no time, the girls had it full of shavings. The top row had to be immediately blocked … Read more
The chickens are starting to go crazy laying, so we needed to update the nesting boxes. Welcome to our chicken hotel! We spent just about every afternoon outside this week working on cleaning out the chicken coop and building new nesting boxes. The girls did pretty good at entertaining themselves while I did my best … Read more
When the highlights of the week are coatracks and a barbie scale, it clearly wasn’t an eventful week. I have been desperately wanting to get our laundry room re-done so we had a place to hang up our coats. The colder weather here means more coats, gloves, hats, boots…and mud, which means a whole lot … Read more
What a crazy week it’s been. Cookies, cakes, and a whole lot of presents! The beautiful weather has pretty much kept us all outside as much as possible. Mucking stalls, cleaning the coop, cleaning the brooder and climbing trees. Once chores were done, we worked on something a lot more fun. I had full intentions … Read more
It finally snowed enough to build a snowman here. It did not, however, last long enough to get more than a few trips around the yard in on a sled, resulting in sledding without snow. The snowman was just about the only snow left in the yard by afternoon. I got my workout in pulling … Read more