I have had my suspicions about one of our chickens being a rooster but until it crows or lays I will keep it. The one thing about getting day old is you never really know whether they are male or female. Yes, they sex them but even then there are no guarantees and that is a little frustrating to me.…
Maybe it is just me, but I love going to open houses and driving through neighborhoods admiring homes, today hubby obliged. While driving around I grabbed hubby’s arm and told him to pull over immediately… do you blame me? This back yard was gorgeous! There were garden beds lined with flowers, bird baths to splash in and then this large…
Don’t you just want to take a seat with a cold beverage? I know I want to! Hubby found that swing at a garage sale on Saturday. At first when he told me he wanted to buy it I said, “Nah, we don’t have the space that would work.” Hubby proved me wrong, yet again! That swing looks like it…
Hubby spent the weekend while I was gone working on the chicken coop that I have now coined the chicken taj mahal. I asked hubby to build a little bit of a bigger coop and he took some pictures and ideas that I had and turned up the notch about oh… one hundred percent. Silly hubby! And what would a…
My kitchen bar and counter looks like a nursery. I cannot wait until I am frost free and I can get my plants out in the garden beds. I have quite a collection of plants that I grew from seed and a few starter plants I bought for two dollars. Today I also bought “wall-o-water” systems and I will plant…
We have been having some really warm days, this weekend hubby had to get the swamp cooler cleaned out and working because we hit 86 on Sunday and with a west facing kitchen and dinning room that makes for a hot dinner time. Hubby also got the sprinklers going in the yard and so the boys have been slipping into…
This weekend we moved the little ladies to the back yard and put the ramp in the coop so that they could walk down and play in the dirt below. The girls were loving being able to be chickens, once they could play in the dirt the were almost instantly taking dust baths and scratching. They were some happy little…
Hubby has been working every hour that he is home on getting the ladies coop built. Granted hubby has been out of town a lot which means that our weekends and coop building mania. I will say that I have been completely impressed with hubby’s building skills. He has been rocking at building the coop… or should I say fortress. …
Oh the joys of chicks. Those that have been reading our blog for a while know that we have gone through a lot trying to get and keep chickens over the last three years. Well this morning we woke up and were checking on our girls and noticed that one of our girls had “pasty butt” after some research we…
Yes, we did it, yet again! We bought six little chicks and I am hoping that with hubby’s coop and some different arrangements we might actually make it longer than ever before with all six chicks! We have not had the best of luck with chickens. It seems that the fox says, “Yummy chicken dinner!”, more than he should. With…