Fun Outside

Today M worked on our path and weeded the strawberry garden, and D worked on putting supports in the chicken coop.  We took the chicks over to the strawberries and kept them out there all day!  We had lots of fun.  The chicks foraged, eating ants, dead bees, and grasshoppers.  Anyway, I just looked at the NaBloPoMo website, and today's prompt was If you could return to a place you once lived, where would it be?  Alaska, of course!  Only for a little while though, not forever.



Ah, Rain

Because of Tropical Storm Lee, where I am in Tennesse is getting, and going to continue to get, quite a bit of rain.  Usually, this would cause a problem with baby chicks, but, even though ours are only eleven days old, they have grown lots of feathers and are very tough.  We have been raising them outside in a big metal tub in our chicken coop.  I've been turning on a red heat lamp mounted to the tub at night, when it's cool.  We have a red thermometer to tell us the temperature (when chicks are only a couple days old, they are supposed to be kept at 95 degrees Fahrenheit), but we mainly just watch the chicks behavior.  They've gotten to where they are far more advanced than normal chicks, however.  We had to think of a new set up for the chicks, though, because Trooper and Dorable jumped out!  Our new set up is made for the rain, and lets the chicks decide where they want to go.  One corner of the coop has metal siding on all sides with a hole to enter, so we set up the brooder light there and filled the corner with bedding.

Fearless

Lello

Little Thing with Lello, Canoli, and Serene