Oh, I can’t tell you how excited I am! Yes yes, I DO love ski season and snow, but I’m getting HUNGRY for fresh foods!!! My husband, an amateur meteorologist, proclaimed last week that after March 5th, we were “done” with the freezing days!!! I’ve waited, we have watched and just moments ago, I too checked the report on accuweather: http://www.accuweather.com/us/tn/del-rio/37727/forecast-month.asp See it for yourself! WARM SPRING DAYS AHEAD!!! Now, that isn’t to say there won’t be some freezing nights.. but as far as planting goes.. you can protect for that.
The chickens are going to be so much happier now, as the grass has already made it’s first attempts at regrowth for the season. Bushes & ornamental grasses are working themselves out of hibernation, and even the trees are starting to look like Spring is about to SPRING! 🙂
Today I have to go out & put Diatomaceous Earth in the coop dusting beds and the ones in the yard, so that we are ready for “bug” season before it gets here. I also have to figure out how to better build in the next boxes for the 4 Post Coop so that they will lay their eggs in there. Right now, 15 or so hens are frolicking around the yard laying eggs in dog crates, under steps, and even in the Bantam Barn!!! Which is ok… but some days we are experiencing a LOT of loss to the dogs, who have grown to LOVE raw egg.
I tried sprouting some seeds for the chooks (chickens) and I’m still not sure what kind of seeds your supposed to sprout, but I tried some food grade peas and it did seem to work. I did a fairly simple process and will go into details later on once I figure out how to best accomplish this and after I see how much good it really does. Seems like it is a GREAT alternative for full time cooped chickens and in the winter months where living greens are non-existent.
Well.. 3 days this week my lovely daughter was home from school due to snow. Monday she went, and today she went (thank goodness) and as a result I have a TON OF THINGS TO DO on the computer here to catch up. I don’t usually get too much computer work done with her around because it does require focus, especially programming and the like. So, on that note, I’m off to get some things checked OFF my To Do: list. 🙂
That’s all for now….
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HAPPY SPRING 🙂