I apologize that I’ve been quite busy recently and haven’t had time to post to the blog. But there have been a number of interesting projects developing since my last post. I’ll try to catch up over the next week on some of the projects. I’ll start off with a fairly major construction project that…
Chicken coop v2
We’ve been keeping chickens for over a year now, and seeing the fresh eggs each day is still quite a nice surprise. It is a really good feeling to eat what we produce on our little homestead. But the first chicken coop version had a lot of negatives. The roof was too low so I…
Chickens taking a dirt bath
The picture don’t show it too well, but I guess this is how chickens bath in the dirt. The cute part is how they are all huddled together in a mass of feathers and dirt.
Eight eggs in one day
Our ten chickens were nice enough to give us eight eggs today. It required a little bit of improvising to come up with containers to carry them home. (These are actually the boxes our circuit breakers came in… but still have 4 eggs left.) One of them must have come last night after we left.Two…
Eggs, eggs and more eggs
More of the chickens are starting to lay, so we ended up with about 5 more eggs today alone. One broke trying to remove it from the coop. I gave two more away at work. And I took the last two home for dinner. Praew is coming home late today so K’Tanawat asked me if…
Chicken run
I was walking around the land today to check up on the progress of the multiple construction projects we have going and I noticed that K’Tanawat had let the chickens out of their coop to get a bit of exercise in the little chicken run we have around the outside of the coop. I guess…
The taste of fresh eggs
This morning we discovered fresh eggs for the first time. (Finally!) The chickens either took a bit longer to settle in than I expected, or else they were younger than I was led to believe and weren’t laying yet. But the next question to ponder was “what should we make with our first ever fresh…
Eggs!
After a longer than expected wait, we have our first chicken eggs! This morning greeted us with a nice surprise: Next I have to figure out what dish we are going to make from our first eggs.
The chickens are settling in
I noticed that the chickens have found a new favorite spot for hanging around: Here is a bit wider view with some artificial lighting to get a better sense of the whole coop: They have a ground level, a ladder to climb up to a loft, and apparently they also like to hang out in…
The chickens have landed! I repeat, the chickens have landed!
Today, K’Tanawat dropped off the chickens. The coop is not completely decorated with egg laying nesting boxes and some sawdust on the floor, but he brought them a day earlier than we expected. Here are a few pictures at sunset: We added a ladder for them to be able to climb up to the second…
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