Waiting on Eggs-
My three lovely hens have been on strike since October or so. No eggs, nothing, nada. This is normal in the shorter months of the year and when they are molting. I decided that even though the days are longer to start turning on a regular light in the coop for an extra two/three hours a day. I'm also giving them some extra protein treats in hope that this will stimulate their hormones to start laying eggs. I told them the other day they need to start earning their keep! So far nothing, but I'm sure the eggs will start popping out soon!
Spring Around The Corner?
Spring is around the corner, and Dave has started doing a little pruning here and there. Then we got an inch or so of snow last night! Very icy drive to work, but pretty! All roads melted by the afternoon-
Our apple tree survived the winter snap we had in October!!! Happy dance! We've seen a lot of trees that don't drop all their leaves die from this kind of thing. Food prices being what they are we are looking at adding some beds in the front yard for annual vegetables. We wanted to look nice so we will do some kind of integrated landscaping with it. We always try to remember that our neighbors have to look at our yard every day and curb appeal is a great part of being a good neighbor! Nobody wants to look at a junked front yard. I have seen some people who put gardens in their front yard that are pretty untidy and look just messy. We like to have things like natural but organized. Too early to plant the summer vegetables so I may start up my grow lights and start some other cool weather veggies. I bought a small windowsill planter to start some lettuces in...
Bonnie approved
New Chairs!
We decided to bite the bullet and buy two new chairs for our living room. We had had our two other overstuffed chairs for almost 15 years. I had re-stuffed them, added foam and bought new covers. They were just at the point though of really sagging, so it was time to replace. We wanted to buy two Flexsteel chairs but it was just way out of our budget. We love our Flexsteel couch, worht every penny! We opted for a brand that was a little below that but super durable frame, etc. We found a style that we liked, chose the fabric and ordered two of them. They were supposed to take up to about 3 months but only took about 5 weeks! Nice surprise. They're really super supportive and really like the slightly smaller footprint and clean lines. Great reading chairs. In a smaller house you don't want to have too much furniture in your living room. That can make it look even smaller. It's always nice to have some open space for the eye. We opted to spend extra money to have a fabric treatment done. We did that on our couch and it's really paid for itself. Even if you get something a little oily on the fabric a wet clean cold cloth will take it right off. Good investment! We are thinking about having our couch reupholstered at some point to update it a bit. For now we'll leave as is, but we will probably have to get new foam cores in the cushions since they are getting a little squishy. The store we bought the couch at recommended that and that makes sense after 10 years or so.
Happy Valentine's Day
Our chickens did the same, but we have never gone that long without eggs, so we switched feed and wa-la- eggs are coming daily now. I also bought black sunflower seeds and other supplements. TSC brand feed also caused chickens not to lay. Check your feed brand.
ReplyDeleteThanks, we actually use the same feed from a local feed Mill since we've had chickens. I did check the protein contents 20% and I started giving the mealworms along with lighting up the coop for a few hours. They were in the nesting box yesterday! Will give it another week or two and yes may change feeds thanks
DeleteOur chickens were on the same vacation schedule since fall as yours! But now the eggs are rolling in I'm happy to say. But we did put in a light a couple of months ago to give them more "daylight." At first it didn't seem to make a change but I now think it must have spurred them on, even if a little belatedly. Love your new chairs! Good to see Bonnie does, too. ;o) Such a good idea to expand your food gardening space. Golly-gosh, anything we can do to help our food budget these days is so worth it. And I fear prices are only to go up this next year along with possible shortages. Ugh. How long can this go on before it gets really bad?
ReplyDeleteEggs started! I need to work on growing greens in pots. Soil issues
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