Once I got it going this morning I went outside to see what needs done.
I turned on this jet sprinkler to water the ground and get the grass growing as I can cut it for the chickens.
Critter protection
I dug up some dirt and filled in the underground fence to keep animals from digging under it.
And I dug out in front of this gate to put some critter proof wire in the ground to keep them from digging under the gate.
Mistake on the gates
I made a mistake and made the gates too close to the ground for the mulch pen. The gates hit the debrie on the ground that is mulching and makes them hard to open.
So that meant I needed to dig the ground dirt down lower so that won’t happen as bad.
Here’s the chickens mulch area where they feed a lot.
This is one of the gates I dug out the ground behind it so it will open easier.
Locked the chickens out first
I locked the chickens out of the mulch area so it’d be easier to work there. The chickens would like to get back in there as they like to go through the dirt I dig looking for stuff to eat.
More critter proofing
One of the last things I needed to do today was install the underground piece of wire in front of the gate.
Here’s the wire cut and ready to install.
And here’s the wire installed and ready for the dirt to go back in the ditch.
Here’s a couple of my little peeps digging in the leaf mulch. These are called Golden Wyandottes I think.
That was it for me today except for a bit of chair hopping in the evening.
You managed to get the pens fixed up so no critters can get at the chickens. Those two chicks are pretty! Are they really blue or is that just the camera colouring?
Hi Patsy,
Those chicks are golden and black. They look ok on my computer so maybe it’s what you are looking at them on? Doesn’t really matter as long as they look good. Interesting enough they do have this chicken in blue. These are called golden laced Wyandottes and they have a blue lace Wyandotte too, but I don’t have any of those. All my chicks in this pen should get much more colorful as they start to mature a bit more. They do grow fairly fast.
Bob
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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.
You managed to get the pens fixed up so no critters can get at the chickens. Those two chicks are pretty! Are they really blue or is that just the camera colouring?
Hi Patsy,
Those chicks are golden and black. They look ok on my computer so maybe it’s what you are looking at them on? Doesn’t really matter as long as they look good. Interesting enough they do have this chicken in blue. These are called golden laced Wyandottes and they have a blue lace Wyandotte too, but I don’t have any of those. All my chicks in this pen should get much more colorful as they start to mature a bit more. They do grow fairly fast.
Bob