Once I got it going this morning I went outside to see how things faired while I was away. I found the weeds had grown well in my garden so I pulled a bunch of them out of here and gave them to my chickens to eat.
My zucchini squash had a bunch of big ones so I cut them up and gave them to the chickens too. They seem to like them.
I threw all the weeds I pulled in here for the chicks to eat. Weeds don’t go to waste with chickens around.
During the heat of the day the chicks get back in this spot in the shade which is under a tree.
I graze around the yard
During the day I ate blueberries, fresh prunes, plums and some mulberries as they are getting ripe too.
I was surprised to find some blueberries still on the bush as I thought they’d be all gone by now.
Feeders are working but
While I was gone the chickens were testing out the feeders I made before I left. They feed ok, but the chickens are wasting a lot of seed which they knock on the ground while feeding. They eventually eat most of it, but it’s getting ahead of them so I raised up the feeders so they couldn’t get to them easily so they’ll have to clean up the seed on the ground.
Now that the chickens are larger I think I’ll have to increase the depth of the bottom trays to help keep the feed in.
Here’s the chickens working on cleaning up the seed on the ground.
Sprouting the seed
I shoveled up some of the seed with rocks and dirt into this container and put a couple small drain holes in the bottom and filled it with water. The seed will either sprout or swell up which should encourage the chickens to eat it all up. I’ll fill it with water occasionally to sprout the seed.
Empting the van
Off and on I spent some time unloading the van. I saved the boat for last after the sun set and moved it back to my car so I can use it.
That’s pretty much what I did today for a good one puttering around the yard.
just catching up a bit. I’m glad to see you made it safe and sound back home. The chicks are trying to get the best of you but you seem to have outsmarted them again! :)
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A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
just catching up a bit. I’m glad to see you made it safe and sound back home. The chicks are trying to get the best of you but you seem to have outsmarted them again! :)