Its funny how its middle April and we are now once again (this happened last year) faced with a frost that could kill crops that have already begun to produce foliage.
Below is a pose of Me and Montie (short for Montezuma- my Colorado stage) she is a great Border collie.
Below a couple pictures of the sun set and me covering up my potatoes to keep from loosing them to frost (it happened to me last year and took for ever for them to re sprout)
From my last post I received an email from a
friend here in the Springfield area who I used to work for, and he offered to pay for 10 chickens in exchange for free eggs at $2 per dozen (because he reads these blogs he knew what was going on). To me it sounded like a good bartering deal so I accepted it and with his money and mine I returned this morning (Sunday) with 25 hens and 2 roosters. We went to the biweekly
Countyline Swap Meet just a couple miles from us and picked them up. Brandy seen two sheep lambs and I almost
didnt make it out of there with chickens! They were the
wool less kind...forgot what breed he said they were but they were a male and female not related so they could have made a good start. But I managed to fend her off and we made it out with the chickens. Below is the fun chore of getting them out of the cage after we got back.
In this picture below I am not mad I just thought she was taking a picture only of the chickens...didnt know she was getting me too.
This is my sister Jennifer...looking all stylish in the 35 degree weather.
I believe that this rooster is part game chicken...but oh well...its an egg. I will work the flock to get to one breed.
Below I am grabbing one of the hens the traditional way to get her to the coupe. I am closing them up in there for 2 days then I will let them out in the run. Dont you think this is just a dandy shot!
My sister is shooing them to me from the other end of the cage. It was quite fun!
Next are my Bees. I dont have any. ha ha I am chomping at the bit though to get some in that expensive hive I built. I have been told the Nucs come in sometime in beginning of May and I am on the reserve list to receive a Nuc. Now at a $109 I better come up with the cash quick. I think though I should be fine by that time. There is some money down the pipeline coming just hasnt got here yet.
Well That's all I hope you enjoyed.
Take care.
2 comments:
Great blog post once again, Jeremy. I only have to take you to task on one thing, Colorado is not a stage, it's a state of mind. :)
Glad to see you got things going with the eggs. Hopefully, I can get me some fresh eggs sometime when Jen comes down or I get back down there myself. I would like to get down there again so I can see your homestead by daylight and not by lightning bolt.
-k
I really like the Blog. I might have a bee book or two. But I am stuck in the city right now. I will have to wait.
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