I took some table scraps out to the chickens this morning and dumped them in this area and they sure like that kind of stuff.
Peeps feed box
I went by the chicks feed box and removed the wooden lid I put on it at night to keep the rodents out. Here’s a few of the little guys feeding.
Another broody hen
When I went by the hen’s laying nest area this hen squawked at me with the broody hen call that I’ve learned they make. That means they want to nest and hatch out some eggs and just sit on the nest most of the time.
Gave her some eggs
In the afternoon she had two eggs under her so I gave her some more to make twelve. Might as well help her along.
Needing a nesting box
But now she will need a nesting box of her own but the one I have is still in use by the last broody hen so I needed something else.
I found this old plastic box I had which now needed a door in it.
I got out my drill and saw and cut a door out on the end of it, leaving a flap so I could close the door if I wanted to, such as for transport.
Forest color
The box was blue a sky color so I painted it green so it’d be a forest color and set it aside to dry.
Once dry I brought the box in and set it up in the nursery pen I guess it would be called.
Nest box ready for the broody hen
The last broody hen is checking the new nesting box out. She already has the one to the left of the new green box she is standing on.
Switching nests
My plan is to let the new broody hen sit on the eggs where she is and move her to the new box tomorrow night after dark. I’ll be sure and mark the eggs this time so I know which ones she starts with so things don’t get confusing this time if another chicken gets in her box and lays any eggs. Only the eggs she starts with will hatch on time so we don’t need any late starters.
Other than that I puttered around the yard and chair hopped. With the recent rains I didn’t have to water anything and it turned out to be a mostly lazy day.
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.
