Once I got it going today I went out to feed the chickens and check on their water supply.
I spent most of the day chair hopping and digging up some more blackberry vines. The sun was shinning most of the day but started to cloud up a bit later in the day.
Walk in the forest
The forest was so nice and green out so I set off for a little hike up into the hills doing a couple miles.
I walked through here.
And along here taking it easy, taking my time.
Getting wet
On the way back it started to sprinkle lightly and all I had was a light shirt so I was slowly getting wet as I entered our old apple orchard which meant I had about a half mile to go to get home before I got too wet.
Broody chickens
After a break I checked on the chickens to see how they were doing.
Here’s Silvia at the nesting boxes, she’s not broody but all the others are.
And here’s Goldie at the nest boxes. My broody hens are taking up most of the nest boxes but Goldie isn’t broody, she just wants to lay an egg.
My second rooster’s name
Patsy wanted to know what I call my Number 2 rooster? Well of course his name is Number 2 Rooster what else eh. :O)
Chickens in the rain
It was raining lightly but the chickens went out to graze just the same. They do come in to roost early on days like this.
After it gets dark I go out to shut the chickens in for the night for their safety.
The broody cure
This night picture shows my broody hens which I transfer one by one up to the roosts each night to hopefully break their being broody. So far, I’ve been moving them for just over a week and I haven’t cured any of them yet.
I had a nice walk in the forest before the light rain started and even with the rain it was nice out.
Hi, It’s mostly a matter of logistics. Last year I let the hens do it and they’d sit on a dozen eggs and hatch out four or five of them and then I’d have to take care of their needs all summer long as some would be nesting throughout the summer. I did learn a lot about them though. The result after doing that and some hawks getting some of them meant I really didn’t’ hatch out enough chickens for eggs and meat as with my corn allergy it takes a lot to feed me throughout the year. So this year I decided I’d try an egg incubator and get it all done and over with and hopefully do better than last year. My plan was to hatch them out early so I can have some meat birds by summers end instead of by Christmas. I got the incubator a little late but that’s my plan. Also when a hen is on a nest and nesting one doesn’t get any eggs from her so that puts a dent in things too.
Number 2 Rooster! Of course! :) Thanks Bob. I was losing sleep over that one.
Sounds like a decent slow moving day.
Silvia and Goldie look like guards outsider the brooders. They are beautiful hens!
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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.
That makes sense. Thanks for filling me in. I’m not really knowledgeable about raising chickens
I am just curious why you won’t allow the hens to sit and hatch their eggs but insist on hatching by mechanical means.
Hi, It’s mostly a matter of logistics. Last year I let the hens do it and they’d sit on a dozen eggs and hatch out four or five of them and then I’d have to take care of their needs all summer long as some would be nesting throughout the summer. I did learn a lot about them though. The result after doing that and some hawks getting some of them meant I really didn’t’ hatch out enough chickens for eggs and meat as with my corn allergy it takes a lot to feed me throughout the year. So this year I decided I’d try an egg incubator and get it all done and over with and hopefully do better than last year. My plan was to hatch them out early so I can have some meat birds by summers end instead of by Christmas. I got the incubator a little late but that’s my plan. Also when a hen is on a nest and nesting one doesn’t get any eggs from her so that puts a dent in things too.
Number 2 Rooster! Of course! :) Thanks Bob. I was losing sleep over that one.
Sounds like a decent slow moving day.
Silvia and Goldie look like guards outsider the brooders. They are beautiful hens!