Bantam growing

These are a few of the bantam I have been raising. They are looking good and running out of room in the chicken tractor.

These are the sketches and final product of my Eggstream chicken tractor. It is made for 3-4 regular chickens or 5-6 Bantams. There are definitely some changes that need to be made. It needs bigger wheels for easier portability. It needs a door that I could get into to catch the chickens if needed. Later I plan on adding a heat lamp for winter. Also, the feeder needs work. The food gets caught up in the elbow of the PVC pipe and all the chicks crowd the first opening. There needs to be some slope or ram rod or something to make it work right. But still I am pleased with the over all design. I am anxious to see the little girls grow into it.

Dinner....one evening.

This silver Sebright seems to be developing a food label. Or a nice sized comb. Whateva you want to call it. I have 6 Sebright and 3 of them are developing these combs way faster than the others. This might be nothing. But then again it might mean, that due to the rules of Gulfport, they are fated to be dinner. There are several other bantam in the coop that will be roosters or chicken tenders...Whateva you want to call'em.

short and sweet.
I...
Miss my mom
love my wife
cherish my daughter
work on the farm
keep up with the teaching
spend too much time on useless things
DON'T SPEND ENOUGH TIME IN THE WORD
can't wait for summer vacation
am going to eat breakfast now.

Big Hairy Deal

The rabbits are growing nicely. Funny Bunny seems to be a great momma. I try to go out and play with the little bunnies at least once a day so they won't be as skittish around people as the adult rabbits are. I know, I know; I'm playing with my food. But I am not so insensitive as to look at them as meat in the freezer. They will be looked after, played with, yes maybe even named, for their short ten or eleven weeks of life. Then they will be canned and eventually sauteed with some butter, salt and pepper. Well all except one...Bucks new wife. Gotta keep the bacon, uh, err, bunny on the table.

rustic pallet heart wall hanging - how-to

I made this short how-to video. Do-it-yourself video, on a pallet wal hanging a coupleof weeks ago. art is easy, getting off the couch is hard!

5th Ave Farm, to date.

From the street, we're a cute green bungalow. Flower beds, bushes and trees frame the house. As you are walking up to the front steps there is a walkway to the south and the north. To the north is the drive way to the south is the side yard where the excitement is. Taking the southern walk around the corner of the house the walk just ends abruptly because the concrete walk way is a project that I never finished. I ran out of money for concrete and the hot summer hit. concrete is hard on the back anytime of year but especially  during the summer heat.

Anyway, if you don't stumble off the end of the walk you see the largest childs play set known to man in a residential back yard. One can pay $1500 for a prefab play kit or spend less on raw materials and build one twice the size. I did the latter.

Beyond the play set is the farm. Its not yet complete. It's an ever work in progress. But in terms of vegetation it consists of; 12 blueberries bushes, 2 plum trees, 36 square feet of asparagus, and then several raised beds of beans, peas, lettuce, squash, okra, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, banana peppers, onions, chard, and strawberries. I am probably leaving something out.

In the far south west corner of the lot is my favorite: In a coop I built are 6 laying chickens Eloise, Ethel, Granny, Tiny Poppy, and Poofy. Thats around 3 or 4 eggs a day. In a chick brooder there are 24 potentially (some might be dinner/roosters) laying bantam chicks only a couple have names. Then there is also 3 meat raising rabbits: Buck, Funny Bunny(Californians) and Salvia (a New Zealand) and 6 baby dinners...err...I mean baby bunnies. Five of them will grow for 10 weeks before being processed. The sixth one will be Bucks third wife. Some of you clever folks reading this probably picked up on the relational problem with that sentence. It's ok. They are rabbits. Rabbits have a tendency to disregard their own family history in favor of getting it on. So I am going to do the same. (I researched the whole thing)

We also have a guard dog.

We have a potters studio, a painters studio, and a woodshop.

God has blessed us richly.