Ki Ki and her catch of the day

Ki Ki worked hard the other day. I think she wore herself out. She never did finish the job.

Introducing Ki Ki the cat.

I'm sitting here looking at my old blogs and noticed, I don't have hardly any blogs on our pets. Well let me introduce Ki Ki. She is about 5years old, we got her from the APL, hoping she would become our great chipmunk killer. Well that's not working out to well, cats are kind of nocturnal and chipmunks are not. Anyway, Ki Ki loves to go outside except when its cold or snowy. When the weather is bad she refuses to go out and is completely bored out of her mind. She also has to be led to her food bowl several times a day. She will come to you and meow and meow until you take her to her food bowl. Now I could see if her bowl was empty and she came and got us to say "hey I need food". But no her bowl is over flowing and she still has to be shown.
This empty box is sitting on its side on top of another empty box sitting on its edge, she jumped from the back of the couch and landed inside the box without knocking it over. The box was only there for about 10 minutes before she decided to check it out.

A Ruff Day!

The dog is having a very tough and tiring day! NOT!

Eggs,eggs and more eggs!

So its been a week since I installed the heat lamp in the coop, all of a sudden we are having an egg explosion. This is a week worth of eggs. I haven't seen white or green eggs from the girls in over a month, now we are getting all colors!

Fire wood Shed

I am always carrying firewood in the dark, since I was messing with lights with the chickens, I figured I am going to get me some light in the wood shed. Now I can see what I am doing instead of carrying firewood by the way of flash light.

I also ran into a problem with the firewood. I got alot of my firewood already cut, I just had to split it, haul it home, and stack it. My wood stove takes logs up to 18" long. I noticed some of the wood is longer than it should be. I thought I threw that in a different pile, and chopped it all in half. Boy was I wrong, I am finding out alot of the wood is 2 to 4 inches too long. I now have 2 stacks like this that need recut. Damn I thought I was done cutting wood for the year!

coop ready for winter

I finally had time to work on the coop to get it ready for winter, right before the snow storm.

When it comes to cleaning the coop, I use what I call the lazy man method, or in other words the deep litter method.

This is suppose to be a frizzle, I don't think he is though. That is one of my Easter eggers behind him, giving me the evil chicken eye!😊

Here is most of he girls and boys getting ready for bed!

I use dual heat lamps in my 8x14 coop. I cant stress enough if you use these kind of heat lamps make sure that they are well anchored to the wall. They will get knocked down! They will cause a fire!

I just use straw on the floor and nest boxes. I also throw straw out in the run, the girls love to scratch in it.

winter wonder land

We got our first snow storm a couple days ago. We got about 3 to 4 inches.