Chicken pics

Here’s a pic of all of them minus the sick one before we split them:

Here’s the sick one.  She seems to be improving.  Let’s hope so.  I’m hand feeding her every few hours.

Chickens!!

OK, so I’ve thought about it for a while.  I finally went ahead and ordered some chickens.   A coworker and I have split an order.   He’s had chicken before.   I’m taking 6 and he’s taking 19. We order Barred Rocks. I saw some at the fair this year and I thought they were quite pretty.

They are due in on the 8th so I’ve started getting my brooder ready. Pics when things are set up.

With some barnyard animals coming in, its feeling more like a homestead!

Oh we ordered from Ideal Poultry, so we’ll see how that goes.

*Edited for my horrible grammar!

Update

Well, not much new going on at The Homestead.  Still taking my time moving things.  I do now have the bed in the bedroom!

I purchased a chainsaw and have begun cutting all the down wood that is piled around the property.  That will be stacked and dried and used in the fireplace.

New replacement windows are coming.  Twenty in all, which replace the single pane windows in most of the house.  Only three larger windows not being replaced.

Raked some of the massive amount of leaves that fall on the property.  Someone has been taking the full bags that I set beside the road.  Oddly, enough someone came way up the driveway and took some that were beside the house!!

Researching raising some chickens.  I’d like to get some Barred Rocks because I love their coloring.  I’d like to find someone locally that has them.  I only want about 6 hens, that should be a manageable number.

I’m having a hard time finding course vermiculite.  I need at least 8 cubic feet for my first Square Foot Gardening box.  I have everything else.  Hopefully, in the Spring it will be more available.

One of the blogs I follow, A Sonoma Garden, has a recipe for making hand lotion.  I ordered the stuff I didn’t have from Mountain Rose Herbs.

Well, I guess that’s it for now.

House Closing on November 4th

Well, I finally have a closing date. It’s probably going to be too late to put in any type of a garden. I am however currently exploring the possibility of raising a half a dozen chickens.