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Eggs from the wild

19 Apr 20222 Aug 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Collected eggs

[Backpost: Aug-2-2009] Four or five of the girls have been escaping every day, creating their own day pass, and doing a fair imitation of flying while they’re at it. In the morning, I open the chickenhouse door and barricade it … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Farm lab (research!) Tags birds, eggs, fencing, Summer 13 Comments

Chickens: ranging too far

18 Dec 20118 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)

These guys, the White Rock Cornish X meat birds, have free-ranged too far, making it to the edge of the veggie garden in the big field. Luckily, although it looks good in the photo, this all-lettuce mesclun is done, cut … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork, Veggies Tags birds, chickens, fencing, free-range, lettuce, mesclun, salad greens, Summer, White Rock Cornish X 9 Comments

Abandoned bee village

28 Mar 200915 Mar 2009 by Mike (tfb)

There’s an apparently abandoned bee village on the edge of the tree-enclosed clearing just beyond the main field (the clearing is past the fence, covered in snow, in this pic). There is a backstory here, still to be fully figured … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Building & Fixing Tags bees, fencing, research, Winter 14 Comments

Winter light

25 Jan 200915 Jan 2009 by Mike (tfb)

Mid-January, 5pm and still light out. This is the view to the west, with the big barn just out of frame to the left, looking past the loafing barn yard to the second, 11-acre pasture—the 9-acre field where the market … Read the rest

Categories Planning, Weather Tags fencing, night, Winter 5 Comments

Chickens, bull, fence…

10 Jun 20084 Jun 2008 by Mike (tfb)

The chickens have been loose by day for a couple weeks in a small, temporarily-fenced run in one of pens just off the barn. Today, the cows were let in to the pen to graze down the long grass. The … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Tools Tags chickens, cows, fencing, Spring 4 Comments
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