My assistant chicken lady says she thinks the nursery area is too small. The chicks can go most anywhere in the grow pens and main pen, but the momma hens can’t. This is to keep the other larger hens. none mommas, out of the nursery area as they seem to cause too much trouble.
Moving chicken’s water
So, I was thinking I could add more room for the momma hens by letting them into the mulch pen area. The only problem doing that is that’s where the main pen water supply is so I’d have to move it into the main pen so the birds in the main pen would have drinking water.
Goldie’s chicks
Here’s Goldie with her chicks as I walk into the nursery pen this morning. I had to watch out when I stepped as they really scoot around.
Mulch pen
Here’s the mulch pen I’d like to let the momma hens into once I move the water supply to the main pen.
And here’s the mulch pen from the other direction. It’s a nice big pen, the mommas and chicks should enjoy it.
The big birds in the main pen get to go outside and graze so they shouldn’t really miss this pen too much.
Water those weeds
I turned on a couple sprinklers to water the weeds for the chickens and let them run most of the day.
Moving the water system
So I had to undo this water stuff so I could move it. Of course the fittings stuck and I had to get some tools to move it. It’s an automatic waterer with a float.
I moved it over to the main pen into this spot and hooked it up to a water faucet. It’s right next to my rhubarb plants so they may get some water from the unit which would be good.
Walk that didn’t happen
It was warm today and for some reason I seemed to be tired out before I started. So I napped some. I had plans to walk up the hill to retrieve the quad runner I left up there and even started to get started in the evening.
But just as I was going to go, I changed my mine and decided it just wasn’t that important and could wait.
Chairs and plans
I took it easy and did some chair hopping and planning instead until it was time to go in for the day.
That was my day, not too hard and I took it mostly easy.
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.
