Shed Roof

A shed roof is being added to the back of the barn so that infrequently, and seasonal, equipment, can be stored out of the way and out of the weather.

The Girls are Really Laying Now!

We're In the Egg Business!!!

Tuesday, October 16th is the first day we got an egg from our hens. It's been five and a half months of raising the little girls from chicks and we'd been placing bets on when the first egg would be found in the next box. Emily Collins gets the prize for coming the closest. But since the prize was to get to eat the first egg, and she's way over in Maine, studying to become an OT, we decided to go ahead and eat it ourselves.

After much admiring and photographing, we cooked it up in a pan and shared it. Very very yummy!

Time for a Fence Around the Veggie Garden

Don set up his game cam on a post in the garden. Here's what triggered it at 4:17 AM.

Too bad for this guy hunting season is just around the corner. But, he's being fattened up nicely on the end of the bean crop so he should be tasty! Next year a fence needs to go up around that garden!

My Little Hen has Died

I think this is the little hen I spoon fed to keep alive when she was only a day old. I suspect she has died from Blackhead disease, a parasite that hurts their liver. Despite many efforts to find the needed medicine, I could not find a local vet who could get and none was to be had in farm stores. It's a very helpless feeling. There seem to be all kinds of help for horses, dogs and cats, but I haven't yet found a poultry vet. I'm imaging most farmers double up as farmer and vet when it comes to chickens and turkeys, and more than likely, most find it not economical to pay a vet for a rather cheap and expendable bird. Even so, I find it sad that she died like this and I feel badly I couldn't help. I know, I know.....she was going to be butchered in another couple of months, but at least she would be eaten and would fulfill her 'circle of life' fate, but now she must be buried very deep or burned so as not to infect wildlife. Keep your fingers crossed that the other turkeys also don't get it.