Country Living

Friday, July 30, 2021

The end of July

Hello wonderful friends! hope you are all doing great!

Can you believe July is almost over?! summer always goes by so quick!

Things have been busy here on the farm. Lots of babies hatching and plants growing!

The cats were on the ball and killed this fierce killer a couple of days ago. It's a short tailed weasel, also called a stout or ermine. Absolutely adorable creatures, but unfortunately they are a HUGE threat to the birds. They can fit through a quarter size hole and will kill everybody in the coop just for the fun of it. It's the first weasel-type critter we've seen around here and hopefully the last. They are mighty scary to me. Much easier to protect my feathered friends from foxes and coyotes.

My turkey poults are growing quickly and have started freernaging.

The turkey poults live with my pheasants. I left the door open yesterday so the pheasants could come out too, but they never did! The door was open all day yesterday and they never left! LOL Guess they decided the outdoor world was too scary. I don't blame them! The door is open again today, maybe they'll decide to come out :)

Wishing you all, all the best! huge love!

Saturday, July 17, 2021

Poultry TV

I just set up the camera and let it run for nine minutes. Chickens, Muscovy duck, and geese

Super Mom Song

My silkie Song is a super mom. she has ten babies- 6 chicks and 4 keets, none she hatched herself. She happily adopts any babies she can :)

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Good day awesome friends!

Hope you are all doing great!

I got my second covid-19 vaccine a couple of days ago. very thankful to get it and be better protected!

A pic of me outside the vaccination center (Walmart)

Here's some pics from around the farm :)

this is Gus the cat beside a giant hole the chickens and guineas made to dirt bath in. What a bunch of twits! My whole lawn near the house has holes all over the place!

Mr Peabody, the gander, guarding his ladies that are on a nest in the baby barn :)

Next two pics of our a little gang of 3 month old chicks I got from the feed store early May.

Turkey pults and Ring-neck pheasants.

And lastly, mama Elvira with her two new chicks :)

Things are very busy here on the farm; lots of babies being born!

Wishing you all, the very best! Huge love!

Friday, June 25, 2021

June 25

Good day wonderful friends! hope you are all doing great!

I've taken a bit of time off from the farm work to get some more designs done .

If you like any of my designs, you can find them for sale on Teepublic (and Zazzle, Redbubble, Cafe Press, spreadshirt, Society 6 and a couple other sites! LOL)

https://www.teepublic.com/user/imphavok

My turkey tom sadly passed away a few weeks ago, so I got three poults. hopefully one will be a boy! They are Beltsville Turkeys, same breed as the one that passed away.

Wishing you a great weekend! huge love!!

Monday, June 21, 2021

Pumpkins

Friday, June 18, 2021

Fixing Fences, Ducklings and Clean Pools

Good day wonderful friends!

Lots happening on the farm this week!

The back wall of our silkie chicken pen collapsed, so yesterday we had to take it down and put up a new one.

We had to clean up behind the pen first. It was over-run by 4 feet tall weeds! LOL The pallet is holding up the wall; as soon as it was moved that end of the wall collapsed. Tavis and I were outside when the wall collapsed, so Travis held it up while I put the pallet in place.

Once we moved the pallet, the whole end and top of the wall went down. The bottom part was still sturdy so we left it to help anchor the next fence to.

New fencing; some discarded deck railing :) We found over at the gravel pits last year. It easily attached to the bottom wall. We ran some plastic sheets along the bottomto ensure no chicks could escape (chicks could obviously fit between the bars)