even samples couldn’t sell all our cucumbers today.
Today at the Windsor Market, we had the fine fortune of experiencing an accidental double-booking of musicians. So the market was forced to put one group where they always do, at the far opposite end of the market — and one group in an entirely new location, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘chicks’
September 28, 2008
if I had a million dollars
September 18, 2008
a new start, a miracle, and a funeral
Above: red roses for the Reds, a white for the Leghorn, and an orange for my Buffy.
After listening to some advice that we get back in the chicken-keeping saddle, yesterday I made a call to Belt Hatchery to order more chicks. They happened to answer the phone when I called (which doesn’t usually [...]
September 17, 2008
unbelievable tragedy
Above: my babies.
One month to the day after they were hatched out into this world, twenty four chicks lost their little lives to a marauding fox.
Last night, as I was getting into bed, I had a bad feeling. This happens a lot to me, though, so I dismissed it as simple overworry. [...]
September 15, 2008
stretching their wings
I was always perplexed by the way a bitch (as in, female dog) will eventually turn on her pups — snarling as the little ones (who are, by then, not so little, with not so little teeth) try to continue nursing from her. Some dogs, it seems, will simply run away to leak milk [...]
August 25, 2008
chicks taking off
They grow up so fast! Just a few days ago, they were in eggs that would have fit neatly into this box. (Now they’re really free-range.) Only six days old, the chicks are already stretching their wings. The brooder has become a runway: the girls take turns racing up and [...]
August 21, 2008
the chicks cometh!
Farmflash:
American man can keep farm in Saskatchewan, after all — although his children won’t necessarily be able to inherit it.
Prince Charles called GM foods the world’s worst environmental disaster; echoes in India agree. (Sad fact of the day: in the past decade, 200,000 Indian farmers have taken their own lives.)
Foggy River News:
At 7:45 [...]
July 29, 2008
the che(e)p brooder
I made the decision to buy day-old chicks instead of older pullets or laying hens. Why? Simple math: day-old chicks are about $2 each (for females), whereas a laying hen will set you back anywhere from $15-30.
30 chicks times $2 = $60. Pretty manageable on a farming budget, if I can [...]
