Pullets Moved!

Finished (well I am sure it will never be truly finished) the new chicken coop yesterday. I put a sheet of plywood over one door and transferred the small sliding door from the barn to the other. The window currently is only covered by chicken wire. So as I stated above it is far from done but it was complete enough so that we could move the pullets into there new space. They had completely outgrown the stall they shared with the turkeys and seemed happy with the move. It was "interesting" moving 48 birds. By the end Danielle and I had devised a somewhat efficient assembly line process. She grabbed 4 - 6 pullets and hung them upside down, carrying them by their feet. She then handed them to me through the window and I put them in the coop. I still need to add a shutter type closure for the window, open up the side of the barn to add a small door ......

As I said it will never be truly finished.

Crop Report

Sweet Corn:

1st planting ~ 9 inches
2nd planting ~ 1 inch

Potatoes: Still doing well although obvious damage from potato beetles

Pop Corn: ~ 6 inches


Pumpkins:

Coop Roof

June 11, 2006

Well the coop done got a roof! Installed a corrugated metal roof on the chicken coop with a sky light in the middle made out of polycarbonate panels. Hopefully the tinted panels will let in enough light without cooking the chickens in the summer.

More Coop

After the wife and kids took off for a week long vacation/camping trip I went out and picked up the plywood for the chicken coop. With the use of the neighbors air-nailer I was able to get all of the wall up! I just need to do the doors and windows. Hopefully tomorrow I will get the corrugated roofing and get that up.


We obviously still need to put some chicken doors in the front.

Potatoes

When I got home from work today I needed to burn off some steam, so I went out to the potato field to hill up the Yukon Golds. The potatoes plants continue to grow well, but we did find some larval bugs on some of the potato plant leaves. Not sure if they are potato beetles or some other pest but I squashed all the ones I found and will keep an eye out for anymore.

Pulled up one of the Red Norlands to see how they were doing, and to my delight I had a hand full of approx. ping pong ball sized potatoes. I put the plan back in the ground after harvesting to see if it will continue to produce.

More Corn and Coop Work

The corn I planted roughly a month ago has continued to come in nicely. I planted some more rows today to space out our crop. Hopefully, the deer will share some of it with us.

I also framed out the roof for the chicken coop. Danielle and the kids are going on a trip next weekend so I hope to get the sheathing and the metal roofing and finish up the coop.