Eating Blueberries, Mulching Paths and the Peeps Are Shipped

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Bob

Tuesday June 12, 2018 Guerneville CA.

Taking it easy doing easy things

Another taking it easy day. I started it off by installing ten springs on the doors for the chicken coop enclosure. Some worked better than others. Some don’t close as strong as I’d like so I’ll have to work on those ones some more and figure out a better way to mount the springs so they have more pull to keep the doors closed.

One of the springs which keeps the door closed.spring

 

Blueberries are getting ripe more quickly now

I visited the blueberry patch several times to eat some of them. They are starting to ripen up faster so some might make it into the freezer instead of my mouth.blueberries

 

I sat around a lot as it was a nice day.

Mulching the garden walkways

In the afternoon I filled the wheelbarrow up with wood chips several times.woodchips

 

I spread the wood chips out in the garden to keep the weeds and mud down.garden

 

Covering up the planted bird seed

This enclosure was real muddy after I planted some bird seed in it so I spread wood chips around in this spot too.chips

 

Peeps have been shipped

My brother Tom came by and said the chicks were shipped today instead of Monday like I thought, so they should be in tomorrow or the next day. I think I am mostly ready for them.

Keeping the chicks warm

Tom said I needed a light bulb over the box to help keep the chicks warm so I rounded up something that should work for that and I took it easy for the rest of the day.

That was  my day for a good one, very restful.

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Prepping the Chicken Coop for Chicks, Planting Some Bird Seed and Taking It Easy

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Bob

Monday June 11, 2018 Guerneville CA.

Enjoying the morning

I was just sitting around this morning in the yard when I heard a motorcycle at the front gate. It turned out to be my brother Barry on his dirt bike.

We shot the bull for awhile then he took off for a ride. I thought about going, but I stayed home to take it easy instead.barry

 

Get the coop ready

I needed to clean the tools and stuff out of the chicken coop to get it ready to receive some peeps soon. Some wild animal got into the shavings and ate a hole in the container when it was outside so it’s a little messy. It’s ok as the floor will soon be covered with the shavings anyway.stuff

 

I worked on cleaning the shed out for a bit and of course a break too.

Planting bird seed

I sorta planted some bird seed in the enclosure area where I had the dirt turned over. I didn’t do a very good job of burying the see so I planted lots of seed. Maybe a little mulch might be good on top.seed

 

Chicken feed later

Hopefully some of the seed will grow and become chicken feed later. This enclosure gets watered everyday so will stay wet.

A little box for the peeps

I was thinking I had a little wooden box that might be good for the peeps to live in for a bit while they are real small as they get shipped in a box so they can cuddle up and stay worm when they need too.

The box is a fairly well made box I made for food stuffs in my van but since have changed to a different way to do that in the van so this box is available. It’s nice because it  has two big side doors and the top comes off too. I just made a cardboard insert to block off the big open side with a little door more chick size.

Here’s the box with the cardboard insert, top and side panel open, cardboard insert in place.box

 

Inside the coop

I cut this piece of wire to help keep the little peeps contained and put the box in there to see how it looks. Looks ok to me.coop

 

I tried to take it easy today so I did a lot of chair hopping and visited the blue berry patch several times to eat some and that was pretty much my day.

Nice day.

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