Chicks!

While attending a Home School Convention on June 6th, we received a call from the post office telling us the chicks we ordered had arrived.  They needed to be picked up by that evening.  This posed a problem. You see, we were 30 minutes away from home at the afore mentioned convention and it would be quite a pain to go all the way back home, settle the chicks, and come back to the convention.  We would definitely be missing some sesssions if we did that and no-one wanted to miss those. :)  So, Dad called a friend who lives nearby and he graciously agreed to pick up the chicks and settle them for us (Thanks, Daniel!:) !  We ordered 30 broilers and 40 layers.  I think we've only had two die- not too bad! :)  They were in the house for the first week or so, but then we decided it was time for them to go out into the coop.

We open it up during the day so that they can get some fresh air.  There is (as pictured above) a screen in front of the door-way so they can't escape. :)

 Some of the chicks.  The white ones are the boilers and the brown ones are the layers.

Eating away!

Drinking from their water dispenser. 

Well, that's all for now!  Have a wonderful week!

~Seth Wassenberg

Spring Start Up

Hello everybody.  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  This spring we got some more animals.  The usual stuff like chickens and turkeys and such.  We also got a new cow that we named Mocha because she is whitish/grey.  She is giving us between 2 and 3 gallons a day and we are only miking her once in the morning!  I also got a beehive in mid May from a beekeeper that is training me (he also takes care of Lavender Fields Farm's honeybees). We mainly got them to help pollinate the garden and to harvest honey from in the fall. Also just for the fun of honeybees.

Building the stantion to milk mocha in.
P.S. She doesn't like to stand on concreate so we can't get her in it!

One on one time with Sandy.

Mocha.

Mocha is released.

Is it safe out there?

Checking out each other.

The finished stantion.

The fun truck ride back to the house.  Why is every body so concerned? >
Hint: Dad

Okay swich the subject now to bees.  I got my honeybees on a Saturday and we blocked the entrance so they
didn't fly around in the car when transporting them to our house.  Then on Sunday morning I took off the mesh stuff
so they could start pollinating.

One of  my bees working in the garden this afternoon.

My beehive.

The glass jars are filled with sugar water that I put on today.

Thanks for swing'n by,
Seth

The sunset.