Today my goal was to get the last four roof panels installed as I got all the construction of them done yesterday.
This is the enclosure that needs some ceiling panels to keep the hawks and awls out from eating my birds.
Panels up
I worked the panels into place and wired them up.
Another view of the roof panels in place and the biggest part of the chicken enclosures is done, although there is still a bunch of little stuff to do, like making sure there are no places the little chicks can get out.
Grower panel up
I also installed one of my grower panels. I mounted it on the fence with wire so the wire works as hinges and I can fold it up and out of the way when I want to plant stuff in it. It’s to be supported off the ground a few inches to keep the chickens from eating the roots of plants as they destroy them. They can hop on the chicken wire and eat the tops, but not get to the roots to kill the plants. Now I need to dig it up under there and plant some seeds. It’s already getting watered everyday with an automatic timer.
Shopping for chicken stuff
I changed clothes and headed over to do some shopping. I needed some water thingies for the chicks and a feeder that keeps them from throwing feed everywhere and this is what I bought.
New feeder
The feeder seems to be working real well as they went right over to it.
Chicks get more space
I rearranged the chick area by removing the wire and putting a smaller piece across the door way. I figure the chicks can have all the floor space but when they start getting up on the shelves, they get moved outside for good.
Getting through the wire
In a few days I plan to start letting them outside during the day, as soon as I know the smaller ones can’t get through the one inch by two inch wire. Some of the little black ones can still just barely squeak through the wire.
What kind
Ken asked what kind of chicks did we get. 15 Dominique’s and 15 New Hampshire’s and one surprise rooster they throw in.
Patsy wanted to know who would take care of the chicks if I go on a trip. I took care of that early on. I realized I’d need a partner. Dominique my brother’s girl friend is my partner and will get most of the eggs, all the ones I don’t eat which will be most of them. She’s a Pastry Chef so can use a lot of eggs. Anyway she seems to like chicks and has been out in the coop reading to them. She’s the one that noticed we had more chicks than we were suppose to.
Done for the day
I wasn’t much in the mood to do much work after shopping so I chair hopped around the yard and made some plans to do some more work on the chicken stuff. I still need roost and nest boxes, but the chicks won’t need them for a bit yet.
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.
