Believe it or not, we actually do have more animals, nineteen chickens and one rooster. We think. Hopefully, we don't end up with more than one rooster. If so, we'll just have to eat him...if he's too loud! The chickens are still mostly too young to tell, but we're pretty sure that we have the right amount. Now the ratios have turned, the girls way out weigh the boys now. When Princess died and we acquired two boy dogs, boys to girls was 8 to 7. Now it's 9 to 26!
We're also preparing for winter- yesterday, we went "wooding" which is when your entire family, including moms, babies, kids, and girls, go out to cut, pick up, and stack firewood. Only Dad and Joe went last time, and the family they went with took the crowd with them. So, next time, all of us girls are heading out there to stack and move firewood. Eventually, we settled into a routine and formed an assembly line. We were done with almost two cords of wood by 10:30 am. (A cord of wood is a measure of wood 4 feet wide by 4 feet deep by 8 feet long and has a volume of approx. 128 cubic feet. I got that off a website, I'm not that well informed yet!). Joe and I (Hannah) split the wood with axes. When Mom saw that I was doing it, she got a real kick out of seeing me with the axe. I thought it was great!
We're also preparing for winter- yesterday, we went "wooding" which is when your entire family, including moms, babies, kids, and girls, go out to cut, pick up, and stack firewood. Only Dad and Joe went last time, and the family they went with took the crowd with them. So, next time, all of us girls are heading out there to stack and move firewood. Eventually, we settled into a routine and formed an assembly line. We were done with almost two cords of wood by 10:30 am. (A cord of wood is a measure of wood 4 feet wide by 4 feet deep by 8 feet long and has a volume of approx. 128 cubic feet. I got that off a website, I'm not that well informed yet!). Joe and I (Hannah) split the wood with axes. When Mom saw that I was doing it, she got a real kick out of seeing me with the axe. I thought it was great!
Our girls. I don't know any of the names of the breeds except the Rhode Island Red on the left of the group in the center.
The chicken palace (as Dad calls it). He spent a long time building it up and cutting windows, but at least he'll have lots of eggs from them as a reward!
Mom, Sarah and Roberta watch our girls come out into the barnyard. They're really chickens.
The chickens come out into the yard. They're so funny! Abby really likes their little clucks and fussing.
2 comments:
Yeah, an assembly line is the best way to move wood, or anything for that matter. That's what families are for!
Splitting wood with an axe. How about a wedge and sledgehammer? That's what we use.
Rhode Islad Reds. A touch of New England, way out in Washington ;-). Chickens can be fun. You probably will end up eating both roosters, because they beat the hens up a lot.
The farm keeps growing!
"Splitting wood with an axe. How about a wedge and sledgehammer? That's what we use."
So do we, on the biggest logs, but it makes no sense on the smaller ones we can sometimes get here. It just takes one hit in the right place, and you've got it. We think it can be easier.
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