Fith-Fath Farm

A suburban farm of 6th Happiness.

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New chickens!

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Last month, I took in some chickens from a kind woman who had an egg farm but was moving out of state and couldn’t bring all of the chickens.  Among the hens, there are 9 Isa Browns, 2 Rhode Island Reds and 2 Bantam Sussex.  There are also two roosters: a big beautiful Rhose Island [...]

Eggs

Monday, June 20th, 2011

We’ve made it to 100 eggs in 1 month!   http://www.eggzy.net/egg-stands/211. No Tag

Week in Review…

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

What I’m trying out: Eggzy, to track my flock’s egg laying. Check out my “Egg Stand” there. Speaking of Eggs: For a while we were finding no eggs. Then I caught them in the act of eating an egg.   I’m not sure how it began- possibly stress from moving- but I do know a reliable [...]

Updates

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Mikołaj, the Polish Tatra Sheepdog puppy has past the 4 month mark, and is 50 lbs.  Whenever I take him with me shopping, peopel have to ask what he is.  He’s about the size of the labs we’ve encountered. I made some clip-art of a tomato seedling.  PNG format, transparent background, variety of sizes, released [...]

The season for chicks

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Its almost spring time! We know this because of the cheep-cheep-cheeping of baby chicks. First, we have a tiny little Bantam, the year’s new addition to our ‘mutt’ Bantam family, headed by the best rooster I’ve ever known, Pasquale, and his most beloved of the hens, Sylvia. Next we have eight chicks from McMurray’s hatchery: [...]