I decided to start out the day doing a little saws all work on taking the bulkhead down. I found the saws all works best for this job although it’s a bit slow. I made several cuts then put it aside until later.
Being born not dying
I went over to talk with my chicken assistant and she said, did I see the almost dead chick in the nest. I said no but I’ll take a look. She did say it was just coming out of the egg. I let her know that chicks don’t have much energy when they hatch and sit around devouring the egg yoke for a few days until they get strong enough to get around and maybe that’s what she saw, a just born chick.
I went over to have a look and found a little chick on it’s back in front of one of the hens kicking in the air and couldn’t get turned over. I was surprised momma didn’t help. I helped and it ran right under momma.
How’s this going to work out
Now these two hens are going to have a problem as they are sitting on fifteen eggs together and when the chicks all hatch out they will need water and feed and will have to get down but they won’t be able to get back up to the nest.
Here’s the cute little chick that is about three days early. When a hen wants to be a momma and goes broody other hens lay their eggs in the nest with the broody hen so most of the eggs the hens hatch out aren’t theirs.
I’ll have to keep an eye on that situation.
Checking out more springs and a hike
I drove the quad up into the hills and parked here to check out another spring and went for a little walk doing it.
I found the spring. I’d started to develop it a long time ago but never finished and forgot about it. It needs a water pipe run to it among other things like a spring tap.
Pink tape
I found some pink tape where I’d planned to lay the water pipe so maybe I’ll do that as I get time.
I dug on the spring a bit cleaning it out to have a look and then went on home.
Bulkhead work
In the evening I did some more cutting on the bulkhead and made some progress. It’s going to be a lot of work getting all the metal out of there and fixing things up to get through the winter rains. If I keep at it I’ll get it done.
Had a nice day. I didn’t really work too hard and had a nice hike too.
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.
