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#homesteading

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Vanalope

Got the roof on the run area of the chicken coop this morning. So happy to have this last big task done!

Working on mounting their feeder tubes and run roosts today. Tomorrow will work on the trim on the exterior of the solid walls.

The girls are now well protected from getting blasted by afternoon sun, wind, rain and come this winter, snow. We made the south and eastern facing sides of the run solid instead of screen because we get some brutal wind from those directions in the early spring and winter. Am working on growing some windbreak hedges on the edges of our property but that will take time.

#ChickensofMastodon#Chickens#Homesteading
MountainWitch ⛤:flag_bisexual:

We are the Mama bears bringing baskets of turnips and beans from our own gardens. We wander the countryside looking for u-pick berry farms, and wild patches too, filling the freezers and jam cupboards. We weave magic in our steamy kitchens, jars upon jars gathering in our backrooms and basements. The greenhouse is overgrown with weeds and also full of lettuce and cucumbers hiding from the afternoon heat. We make food, harvest food and preserve food for our families but also for the love of it, the smell of ripe peaches blanching off their blush skins, tomato sauces bubbling away the hours, the ping of sealing jars while tea brews and crickets click, porch chairs creak and birds whistle in the brush. This life, this land, this way. For the love of it.
#homesteading #countrylife #FoodSustainability #firstharvest #lughnasadh

Vanalope

Super excited. The chickens have been in their new coop a few weeks now, and though we still need to get the roof on the run area (hopefully in the next couple days am awaiting the delivery of a metal shearing tool to be able to cut the last roof panel.)

The coop's been done enough for them to live in it full time. They seem to have adjusted to the new change.

A couple days ago they started going up into the main coop during the day and scratching nearly all the bedding out of the nest boxes into the main floor of the coop. Their combs and wattles have also been getting redder. Today Alecto, the hen who's always been the most physically advanced of the lot, was in the coop scratching in the nest box when I checked the main coop. I tentatively scratched her butt and instead of moving away, she squatted down, raised her butt and held her wings out....the submissive squat, showing a chicken is ready to mate. So eggs should be forthcoming very very soon!

I quickly left her alone to work through doing what she needs to do.

#ChickensOfMastodon#chickens#homesteading
Jayhem

editing and boosting because seed catalogs are hitting the mailbox:

Because I was still on the mailing list for some reason, let me remind you to NOT BUY from #BakerCreekSeeds because of their blatant support of right wing ideologies and white supremacy.

Better options: High Mowing Seeds, Sow True Seed, Heritage Seed Market, Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Fedco Seed.

#gardening #seeds #plants #vegetables #democracy #homesteading #farming #farm

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Kate Hildenbrand

Part of the windowsill lettuce is green instead of Lollo Rosso. I guess some of the ungerminated seeds that failed in March decided to take advantage of me watering the later sown Lollo Rosso. I guess we'll have mixed salad then.

The lettuce in the other planter I'd cut back completely after it wilted in the heat wave grew back a third time and is now bolting. I can harvest seeds soon. Well, at least salad works without a garden.

#gardening#homesteading
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DoomsdaysCW

So, my neighbors have added to their flock -- but now the smell is getting a bit stronger. Since I've talked to the neighbors about how I grew up around ducks and chickens, they know I'm not squeamish about all that. But there are ways to manage one's manure pile, and I'll plan on having a friendly discussion with them. Lime is readily available at the local hardware store, and given their lack of space, probably the best solution. But any other ideas would be appreciated (enclosed composter? pine shavings?).

Help! How can I control compost smell?

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BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise ChickensHelp! How can I control compost smell?The weather has started to get warmer here (PA) and I cleaned out the run of the chicken coop. I have a compost pile behind the fence in my back yard. It didn't really smell that bad when it was in the run but I guess having it all in a pile creates more of a smell, plus the fact that the...
#SolarPunkSunday#BackyardChickens#Composting
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Onion harvest. @vaviurka plucked them out and I improvised a drying rack from an old rickety wooden ladder, of which we have many in the barn.

Just added some extra sticks, lashed on with some wire from the scrap bin on one end only. That way onions can be pushed in under the stick rapidly.

A little garlic on there, too.

The first rickety ladder actually broke in two places and was added to the firewood pile. Too flimsy to hang onions from! 😬

The whole thing found a convenient place under the new firewood store. Warm, dry, sheltered from the sun and very well ventilated. The whole place smells like onions now 😆

#Homestead#Homesteading#DIY
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