The Mind's Eye

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Posted by Bird @ 8:38 pm CDT
Filed under: Family, Photos

Daniel is a very happy child, but he won't smile for a picture to save his life. He's really excited about the chickens ...

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Here's Abigail feeding them something ...

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That cage thing they're in is called a chicken tractor. You pull it around your yard and let your chickens graze over different areas of the yard. Those chickens are about three months old, so apparently we're still another three or four months away from them laying any eggs. I guess we're farmers now.

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Comments on "We've Got Chickens":

1. Elly - 05/31/2009 2:26 pm CDT

looks fun. Are there foxes about?

2. Bird - 05/31/2009 2:46 pm CDT

There are foxes. From what I've heard and seen, the wild life around here are foxes, raccoons, possums, skunks, coyotes, deer, boar, bobcats, and even an occasional cougar (mountain lion). We also have plenty of birds flying overheard. We're hoping to keep these chickens alive long enough to lay us some eggs!

3. Debbie - 06/01/2009 12:21 am CDT

Perhaps EO's not smiling because he has to pee. It almost looks like he's gotta go!

4. dani - 06/02/2009 7:35 am CDT

That is a very cool chicken thingy. How does it feel to be a farmer? ;) Do you still have to feed the chickens or do they just graze?

5. Bird - 06/02/2009 7:42 am CDT

It feels pretty good. Supposedly chickens are the easiest livestock to raise, so they're the right place to start. Brandi and I want to get a meat cow maybe next year or the year after. The idea being we get a cow who will graze in our field, eat our grass, and then we'd get him butchered for several hundred pounds of meat. :-)

The chickens need feed because they can't find enough bugs. Feed's pretty cheap. We feed them a couple of times a day, but we're looking into building a little automatic feeder at some point.

6. Debbie - 06/03/2009 3:52 am CDT

Elaine's best friend, Amy, moved out to the country w/ her husband last year. They've been living in a TENT until they can buy a house. But they're getting into the full swing of thing as farmers. Check out their blog: http://goingtothecountry.com/

7. Bird - 06/03/2009 12:59 pm CDT

I wonder how he commuted back-and-forth to work while living in a tent. Must have made hygiene hard.

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