So the other day, mom hard boiled one of Betty Blue Feets giant green eggs. I don’t know why I had not thought of this before!!
Pretty neat right?!?!
chickens
Growing food/treats for my chickens
It’s been rough on my ladies lately with all the freshly worked ground and mulch everywhere, they just want to get in and roll around. Well that just can’t happen, I’ve been working to hard to let them tear it all up! So in return I have bored hens…. I still let them out to free range for a few hours in the evening but have to keep a close eye on them.
In the winter I’ve read that people grow fodder for their chickens, to cut back on food cost and to supplement for the lack of greenery. So I thought why not grow some for my ladies!! It’s super quick, cheap and fun to grow!! Here’s what I did!
I bought a 50lb bag of untreated Barley seed for roughly $12.
I soaked 3/4 cup seeds in a mason jar for 24hrs
After 24 hrs I put them in a plastic container with drain holes and set them on the counter with a drain pan underneath, the idea is to keep them moist but not wet.
Here’s what it looked 4 days after putting them in to soak.
And here 7 days later.
They absolutely love it!!! I bought one of those suet cages for birds and smash it in there and hang it in their run. Not only is it nutritious but it entertains all of us and them!!
Happy foddering people!
A Dream Come True!!
I’m that girl that loves an opportunity to build something!! So, I told you a little while back that I was planning toward building a greenhouse, and it is finally finished!!! It took some planning since we didn’t have any blueprints, only pictures of what I wanted it to look like but we did it!!
Here we were getting the supplies!
The process looked like this
And this
My chickens even joined in the fun!!
It was so much fun!! I had some nice days and foggy days and rain to work with, but nothing got in my way!
And…… Ta Da!!!!
It is a dream come true to have a greenhouse! I couldn’t be more pleased with myself and everyone that helped make this happen! As I stood outside staring at my greenhouse (that’s right, my greenhouse, I still can’t hardly believe it) the sun was going down and made my greenhouse glow! What a sight!!
Do you have a greenhouse? I’d love to see your pictures!!! Happy growing people ✌️❤️😃
Giant Eggs!!
My chickens typically lay a nice mixture of large and jumbo eggs.
We have gotten our fair share of those extra special double yolkers!
I’ve had some pretty huge ones!
But today I found the biggest one yet and a green one at that!!
It’s sooo big! Lol I tried to put it in the carton…
It didn’t fit…. At all…. Lol I didn’t even know a chicken could lay an egg that big!! I think it’s safe to say that my chickens are pretty great!!! I love that my chickens keep surprising me! Happy farming people!!
My poor chicken…
Yesterday afternoon I went out to check on my chickens, as I do off and on throughout my day. It’s been really cold here but we haven’t had a bunch of snow so my girls have been out and about all day, except yesterday half of them were in the run. When I poked my head in to the run I found one of my brownies (if you’ve read my other posts you know these are the ones I rescued) with her head covered in blood…. Oh my as I looked around to assess the situation I seen blood spattered all over the run. So I ran around to the coop to check things out in there to figure out what was going on and a cat jumped out of one of the nesting boxes! I don’t have cats!! My poor chicken!!! I called my mom and husband to come help and we brought her inside to try to clean her up and figure out what happened.
WARNING!!! These pictures are not for the weak stomached.
We took her up to the shower to rinse her off and figure out where she was injured at. She kinda liked it I think.
After we got her cleaned up we found her comb damaged pretty badly. I think she was trying to get out of the coop and it must have caught on her way out, I don’t think it was the cat…. So we tried to put tapioca flour (I was told this is the same as cornstarch) but I guess it’s not because it sure didn’t help. Then we tried pepper, which was a disaster, she bled even worse after that. So after holding her and trying to blot at it and her flinging blood everywhere, it looked like a murder scene. ( lol ok so maybe not that bad) The bleeding finally slowed way down and I got her to eat some yogurt, high in protein and easy for her to digest, figured it would help her recover. She really enjoyed the treat and chowed down.
I took an old rabbit cage down to our basement so she could have a quiet night to rest. I was also really worried the other hens might pick at her…
She is doing much better today and I am hoping to put her back in with her friends this evening. Poor thing….
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