Today I just wanted to get all the wire cut for the panels I have welded up so it should be an easy day.
I got the stuff out and started cutting the chicken wire to size to fit the panels.
Messy Peeps
When I first checked the peeps this morning I found they had dumped over their feed bowls and the food was all on the floor.
When I checked them later after the sun warmed things up I found the room to be 100 degrees F. and all the chicks were huddled not doing anything until I shut the light off and opened the screens in the door.
A little later things had cooled down and the chicks were moving around some.
Changed things around a bit
I put this board in to set the food dishes on. I also changed the feed into this bowl with rubber bands around it to keep them out of the bowl to see how it would work out. They like to eat off the floor more than they like eating out of the bowl that’s why I added the board so I can take it out and clean it and they can find the food on the floor instead of digging through the wood chips looking for it.
I continued to cut wire and had a couple breaks too.
Rats at work
When I walked by this covered enclosure where I’ve been putting my food scraps from the house I noticed I must have spilled some stuff when I filled it yesterday,………………..but.
Looking closer I can see a rat or rats have been in there and made this hole to get to the food stuff.
I’ll have to do something about that eventually.
Checking on some chick equipment
In the afternoon once I had finished cutting the chicken wire I walked over to my brother’s coop across the road to check out his water system and feeder for his chicks.
Here’s his chicks, over a hundred of them.
Chick tools
Here’s the stuff he uses. After using the little bowls I’m using I see why this stuff is designed the way it is.
I’ll need to get some of this stuff when I can.
Tom’s Garden
I checked out his garden. He does the farmer’s market under the name of Armstrong Valley Farm.
His squash is way ahead of mine, I put some in my last pot of vegetable soup.
Heater only for heat
I decided not to use the light for heat any more as the heater seems to work a bit better at least I think it doe so far.
So late in the day as the sun was going down I turned the heater back on and left the light off so they little guys should have a better time sleeping.
Here they are huddled up resting with the light off and the heater going across from them.
Some gardening
I needed to plant some more radishes and replant my carrots as they never came up so I did some planting in the evening.
Just before dark I did a little more work on the panels putting wire on a couple of them, but not finishing anything up.
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.
