Thursday, March 14, 2013

Working Girls...

So yesterday I promised you all a post about our Egg Factory but I did not get those pics done so instead I will post about our Egg Factory workers.  We have 3 chickens who are 1 year and 1 month old today!!!!  We have Carmen who is a New Hampshire Red and she is also known as Big Mama.  She is the foreman of the group, she walks around and makes sure that everyone is doing their jobs and she alerts the whole neighborhood when an egg has been laid.  We have 2 Buff Orpingtons, Bernice and Mae.  Bernice is the friendliest and neediest chicken you will ever meet but a very hard worker.  She will dig to China if given enough time in her spare time she loves to watch TV and sit in your lap.  Mae is the shy, quiet one but also a very hard worker...here she is in the midst of laying an egg.
When we clear out any of the garden beds to replant, we cage them up and let the girls do their job.  They scratch and dig through the soil looking for bugs or bits of vegetation to eat.  Meanwhile this is tilling the soil for us and their poop fertilizes the soil to make for bigger, better plants.  
Great job ladies...keep up the good work!!!!


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Yes, I am back...

Sorry, been on a blog hiatus for a bit but I am back and this time to stay for good :)  A lot has happened on the farm since my last post.  Here are just a few highlights:
- we had quite the tomato crop and everyone fell in love with our Cherokee Purple tomatoes, best ever!
- ate our first homegrown broccoli a couple weeks ago...wow...just wow!
- we have arugula coming out of our ears, thankfully everybody but Terra likes to eat it.
- unfortunately we lost one chicken, Edith due to a prolapsed vent (Google it if you really want to know about it) but the other 3 girls are happy and healthy and egg producing machines.
- I have completed the first version of the automatic chicken feeder but more on that in my next post.
Stay tuned for the next post about our Egg Factory :) and I promise not to be a stranger on here anymore.