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Bees, Bees, Bees. Bzzz.; 20,000 Bees Bought Online – How it All Began
The long awaited post on Zachary’s bees! Zachary’s interest started several years ago. Although he is unable to remember exactly what inspired him to be a beekeeper we do know he found 2 dilapidated bee hives while doing some clean-up as a 4-H volunteer a few years ago. He brought them home and shortly after that there was a swarm of bees found on a tree in our front yard. He wrapped himself up like an Eskimo (since he had no suit and veil at that time), put on some ski goggles and went to capture the swarm. He looked quite hilarious and I’m really wishing I could find that picture! Before he got the swarm,…
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Our Backyard Chicken Coop
I mentioned to you on Monday that I had a few boys here visiting and decided to put everyone to work enlarging my chicken enclosure. I am so pleased with how it turned out. First, I’ll show you our enclosure then our chicken coop. I have the most adorable little chicks, purchased a week ago. They are Buff Orpington’s and Rhode Island Reds. I had ordered through the mail, Auracanas & Black Australorps. They are 3 weeks old in this picture. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to mix 3 day old chicks with these 3 week old chicks but it was no problem. The older ones did not hurt them in…
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The Birth of a Goat Kid
!!WARNING!! If you don’t like to see pictures of little goats that are dirty and are just being born… you might want to skip this post. But if you’re not bothered by all that’s squeamish… continue on. I had never seen one of our goat kids being born till last week. What an exciting moment for me and Justus. Sugar, the momma, had already had 1 kid before I arrived. When I came into the barn, here is what she looked like. She started to make some low maaing noises and then… out came a kid in its sack. Sugar proceeded to clean it before she had her 3rd baby. All 3…
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Removing Spurs, Eartagging & Disbudding
Yesterday was a day of firsts for me since I’ve only recently became involved with our goats. I’ve always enjoyed our farm animals but have wanted my kids (children not goat kids 🙂 ) to do the farm work for the experience as well as the wholesomeness of it all. I think it’s good for them. I’ve found it to be good for me, too. It’s quite therapeutic to be outside and care for the goats. It’s so easy for me to stay inside since it’s more comfy and because there’s always plenty of work to be done. But now I have to get out there and feed the goats…
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Do I Smell Something? – Skunk Update
My husband walks into the post office and the lady asks him, “Did you get sprayed by a skunk?” (Whoa! Excuse me?? Did you just say what I think you said?) Our room still has the faint odor of skunk so our clothes are probably absorbing that. Aghhh! When we opened our laptop computer case yesterday the smell was strong. Thankfully the weather has been very nice outside so we’re able to open the windows during the day. I don’t know of any other solutions. I’m just imagining when all 8 of us go to church and trudge down the aisle what it will be like. 🙂 We’re blissfully walking…
