Here’s the little peeps when I went out to see them this morning. I’d added a small portable heater last night which seemed to work much better than this light blub as it spread the heat out more all over the floor so the chicks were more active.
I gave them some feed and changed their water.
Skittish
They seemed to be more skittish today and would go over in the corner until I peeped a bit and that seemed to calm them down.
Portable heater
Here’s the heater I added that seems to work better than a light blub and it’s much safer from fire too. Peeps like about 90 degrees F. when they are first born.
Welding panels
I spent most of the day welding up panels. This was the last one I welded up today. It will be used to grow stuff to keep the chickens from eating the roots of things I grow for them. I’ll call it the a grow panel. They’ll be able to walk on the chicken wire to eat the tops of the plants but not be able to get to the lower part to kill the plant. This is laid on the ground about three or four inches off it. I saw smaller ones used on YouTube.
Here’s most of the panels I welded together today. They still need wire attached. Most of them are ceiling panels or roof panels.
Heating up the chicks
I checked on the chicks several times. The day was cool so I turned the heater on early today. You can see they don’t have to huddle under the light with the heater going. With the heater on they are more active and eat and drink more.
One of the grow panels will go in here where I plan to grow food for the chickens. As you can see the sprinkler is growing a nice crop of oat grass. I think the chicks will get lost in here.
The garden is coming along and the plants are starting to grow faster.
I tried to work at a slower pace today, just puttering and still got quite a bit done.
Oh! The baby chicks are adorable!! I love how you have black and blonde ones. You are a good ‘daddy’. Happy Father’s Day, look after those babies. :)
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
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.
Oh! The baby chicks are adorable!! I love how you have black and blonde ones. You are a good ‘daddy’. Happy Father’s Day, look after those babies. :)