4/17/15

Well, we haven't been doing much small farm, homestead activities...we've been teaching our ds how to ride his bicycle! And he has been successful! YAY!

I have continued to work on hauling manure out of the horse lot.

We have lost one more chicken...so we are down to seven. I need to build a small chick nursery and get an order of chicks from Murray McMurray Hatchery. We have always purchased day old chicks from Murray McMurray Hatchery...except for last year. We purchased about 8 week old chicks from someone local. I don't know what the difference has been, but we have NEVER had these types of problems with raising chickens. So, yeah, back to https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/index.html!

We have been infested with fruit-fly like flies...ugh. We made fruit fly traps with jars, paper cones, red wine vinegar and banana butter. Put the red wine vinegar and the banana butter in the bottom of the jar, make a paper cone-wide enough to cover the mouth of the jar, short enough to keep it up out of the red wine vinegar. Lots of success.