Happy Harvest Blog
Pig Innovations
Whatās going on here?
Is that what I think it is?
Yep.
Pigsā¦.
All of them are different!
This is the first one whoās ever thought that ā¦
Perfect Day
I forget how wonderful the first day of having the coops outside is. Itās a threshold day, the anchor of the seasons, when the chickens come out and the purpose of the greenhouse is transformed from winter housing (Poultry Palace) to growing food. The coop roofs, dusty and pooped on, will be washed in the next rain. Itās the real beginning of the growing season.
Coops Out!
So tired... but I had to bring the coops out of greenhouse in order to plant in there (only three weeks late). It has to be done.
The coops in and coops out days are benchmarks of the season. The beginning of summer, and the beginning of winter. Important, marker days. Like spring cleaning, the GH gets everything pulled out of it and then transformed, in purpose and appearance.
Vector & Little Mama
Vector and Little Mama made it all the way out to the house! I was surprised to see them out the front window, toodling around together.
Snow In May!!?
Quite a surprise to wake up to several inches of snow in the morning.
Gorgeous, just unexpected for Motherās Day.
The pigs were non-plussed. Maybe theyāve seen snow before, but it doesnāt seem like it.
The squirrels were very funny, bounding around in the snow, tunneling and popping up through it like gophers. Competition is heightened since I blocked squirrel access to the bird feeders, andā¦
Rain Washing
I set all my houseplants out on the āpatioā in the rain for a good washing. They are dusty and due for a spring cleaning.
And then thereās my Big Mama Aloe. I didnāt know that an aloe could get so large. I donāt even remember where I got her as a baby, just that she was an unremarkable size, and sheās grown to resemble a pineapple plant.
Shantytown
OMG, broody hens!
They went broody on the same day, and after a couple of days occupying the nest boxes in the coop, I figured they were sufficiently committed to broodiness and I could move them.
I carefully prepared their accommodations in the evening. Two chickeries close together, both entirely wrapped with canvas and paper feed sacks (hey, weāre not going for cute here, obviously), but with the wall between them not visually blocked. This backfires later in the story.
Another Silkie Chick
Weāre getting a rash of only, early chicks. Here we have an unexpected Silkie chick. As much as they are the most vulnerable chicks and have a lowered chance of survival, they do surprisingly well with the roulette wheel of reaching hatching at all. I donāt āhelpā my Silkie hens keep eggs, ie., I donāt isolate them with a set of eggs and food unless I mean for them ā¦
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