The Chicken Taj Mahal Gets a Fence

Our egg fac­to­ries con­tin­ue to receive far too much atten­tion and far too many lux­u­ries. Espe­cial­ly con­sid­er­ing they haven’t pro­duced a sin­gle egg yet. Over the week­end we built a fence to sur­round the Chick­en Taj Mahal. The fence isn’t designed so much to keep any­thing out as to keep the chick­ens in. Chick­ens are a … 

Snow Report — a Little Late

The snow has just about all melt­ed — now we’re hav­ing floods. But here are a few of the best pic­tures from the Decem­ber snow storms. We are very grate­ful to have Adven­ture Truck on our side.  He got us off the farm and safe­ly back every sin­gle day of the storm except Christ­mas. Some­days we only … 

Barn Swallows are Back

Each sum­mer we have sev­er­al nests of barn swal­lows. Late last week I watched the first of the barn swal­lows fly across the pas­ture. This morn­ing I had the first evi­dence that house­keep­ing has start­ed. One of the oldest/biggest nests is perched on top of the flood light over the feed room in the barn. As … 

Chicken Update

The friz­zled ban­ty hen has man­aged to hide out and hatch a hand­ful of chicks.  Jim caught this one out for a snack. Hope­ful­ly they will stay in the barn long enough to grow to be too big for the crows to terrorize.