I’m starting to see the end of all the construction of the chicken stuff.
I still have a few things to do but they are minor compared to what I’ve already done.
Today I needed to get the automatic water system for the chickens completed.
Water container construction
I had this piece of plastic five gallon container that I’d cut into this quite some time ago and thought it would make a good watering system. I purchased a flout valve that clamps onto it’s side. It needs a top to keep the chicken out of the water and keep the water cleaner so I rounded up this board and cut it to size and cut a hole in it for a hole to hook to the valve. I only had to trim the front side of the plastic container so they could get their heads into the water.
I screwed the board to the plastic container and this is the finished product.
Water container installed
Here it is installed and full of water and ready to go. It will take a bit of time for the chicks to discover it and start using it.
A few of my peeps
The chicks come out of the coop in the morning when I let them out and run all over feeding away until they get full or tired and they rest for awhile.
Here they are resting.
Tried again to find my chick
Around 3 I decided to go over to my brother’s chickens and try once more to find my lost chicken.
But it was already too late and I still couldn’t see too good. I looked through all the chicks and just couldn’t tell which one it was so that didn’t work out.
Here’s my brother’s chicks and mine is in there someplace.
I did a bit of tidying up putting some of the tools I’d been using away and still have more of that to do.
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.
