eggs & tea

I have plenty of ag chores this fine morning. There’s blue sky and bright sunshine in Ahualoa. We’ve been getting days of overcast, wet, rainy days. I prefer the drier weather and I think the adult hens do, too.

1. DA BABY CHORES: remove the paper towel litter & replace with newspaper litter
2. scrub out both 1-gallon waterers, add 1 TBS organic, unfiltered apple cider vinegar (ACV) per gallon
3. scrub red trough feeder, air-dry
4. fill galvanized metal feeder, give to chicks under brooder
5. DA BIG HEN CHORES: fill 2 quarts of dry lay rations for the adult hens
6. scrub two 5-gal. dirty feed buckets, air dry
7. scrub one 30-lbs. metal tube feeder, air dry
8. bring down 5-gal. bucket of Diatomaceous Earth (food grade DE) to hen house

I reclaimed various materials from different locations to build the “Baby Chick Condo 2009.” Building the brooder pen took me about 3 hours over the course of a weekend.

1. black shade cloth to cover dirt floor (around the homestead)
2. two-ply cardboard box from a color laser printer (my ex-office)
3. one-ply cardboard boxes (Costco)
4. Gorilla brand duct tape, twine (Jim’s toolbox)
5. clear packing tape (my craft tool box)
6. four fence posts (from Hillery’s homestead)
7. paper litter (old newspaper from library, old paper feed sacks)
8. twine (our homestead)
9. clothespins (our laundry line)

Materials that I purchased

1. red plastic trough feeder
2. two 1-gal waterers
3. green shade cloth (6′ x 6′)

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