Automation to the Homestead
[vc_row fullwidth=”true” fullwidth_content=”false”][vc_column][vc_column_text]So a number of ideas have been working their way through my thought processes. One is the morning and evening routine of opening and closing the chicken coop door. So an automatic door is on the list. The start of this project will be using a couple of timers and switches, but some […]
Chicken Killers – Dog Attack
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Chicken Killers”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”8652″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1513447549989{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The Buff Orpington momma hen and two of her ten chicks cruelly killed by someone’s dogs.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”8529″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_single_image image=”8692″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_single_image image=”8536″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1513447270747{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]It pretty well goes that if you have chickens, you will […]
November 2017 Egg Production
[show-rjqc id=”16″] Really expected to see a slow down in egg production during November. Some but not much. Mostly the four hens from 2016 as they stopped production to take some time off to molt. Also a couple more hens decided to go broody and set on the nest. Seems to me like it might […]
IP Cameras in the Chicken Coop
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1511635601287{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Monitoring the chicken coop with a web cam? Yes, I do. Several of them in fact. And even send video to live streaming onto YouTube from time to time, like when the hen goes broody and the chicks are about to hatch. It is a great deal of fun to hear […]
October 2017 Egg Production
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Drama in the Chicken Coop
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Finally, Another Broody Hen”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”8695″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_single_image image=”8691″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_single_image image=”8692″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_single_image image=”8689″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_single_image image=”8688″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1508972107419{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Our efforts last month to get a hen to go broody met without much success. Buff Yellow, would love to get […]
September 2017 Egg Production
[show-rjqc id=”14″] September 18th-20th our Buff Orpington hen hatched our her chicks
Baby Chicks – First Day Out with Momma Hen
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Baby Chicks – First Day Out with Momma Hen”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1506519659430{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]At a week old, the Momma hen got a chance to take the baby chicks on their first outing, and she headed them to section of the garden now covered in weeds and tall grass. One of hens from last year, Sophia Red, […]
Encouraging Another Broody Hen
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Encouraging Another Broody Hen”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”8650″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1506353317235{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Now that we have had our first successful hatch with a first time broody hen, we got to wondering, can we repeat the process? From reading a number of both online and offline articles on broody hens we learned hens go […]
Rooster Time Out
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Rooster Time Out”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”8670″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1506175894911{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Hunter is currently the top of the pecking order for the roosters. He thinks he is top of the pecking order for everything and everyone else too. Recently, he has been attempting to sneak up behind me, and either challenge or attack […]