More fun than a wagon of bassets
Oct. 16th, 2009 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnSam, the minion, and Josh are hard at work with the auger making holes for the fence. What fence you ask? We're pulling back the fence on the north side of the house to the back of the house from the front. This will give us more room to plan the garage and make it easier to bring equipment into the yard as the new gate will be long enough to let a truck through. The one we have at present barely allows a wheelbarrow.
I've segregated out next week's dinner ducks, who are still living in the West Wing (punny, eh?) together. The other females have been combined with our home flock so I can track their laying ability and sort out who gets along and who does not. In this case, non-cooperation equals a short trip to the dinner plate. :D Josh is very fond of the new silver blue swedes, they are big, gorgeous gals. Pagan men, gotta love them. The scrawnier new khaki campbells can stay if they can lay, otherwise we'll fatten them up and schedule them for later this month.
The Cheekins are still getting used to us, likely a hard thing to do with dogs, duck flock and power tools. One of the gals laid a lovely brown egg yesterday late afternoon. We'll be renovating the last of the rabbit exercise pens into a coop to keep them safe. Josh and I will likely head over to the mainland to go to the main Feedstore for poultry items ours doesn't carry.
I've segregated out next week's dinner ducks, who are still living in the West Wing (punny, eh?) together. The other females have been combined with our home flock so I can track their laying ability and sort out who gets along and who does not. In this case, non-cooperation equals a short trip to the dinner plate. :D Josh is very fond of the new silver blue swedes, they are big, gorgeous gals. Pagan men, gotta love them. The scrawnier new khaki campbells can stay if they can lay, otherwise we'll fatten them up and schedule them for later this month.
The Cheekins are still getting used to us, likely a hard thing to do with dogs, duck flock and power tools. One of the gals laid a lovely brown egg yesterday late afternoon. We'll be renovating the last of the rabbit exercise pens into a coop to keep them safe. Josh and I will likely head over to the mainland to go to the main Feedstore for poultry items ours doesn't carry.
