As of Tuesday night I am now back to sleeping in my bed, with my husband. It is great. Since last Thursday, I had been sleeping with the chickens. On the floor, in the shed, where the smell of chicken poo had been steadily increasing…
Today was not a good day to be a chicken at Tubby Creek Farm. To get the full story, we need to back up a day. Yesterday, we moved the Cornish Rocks into their new digs – the chicken tractor. We had just finished it…
So here’s the deal. We’ve got this old barn that fell down at some unknown point in the past. Mrs. Wilson got all the good stuff out of it (t-posts and the like) and had someone come for all the scrap metal. We are left…
THE CHICKS ARE HERE! This morning the post office called at 7:00 am to let us know our chicks had arrived. Randy said he could here them peeping in the background. Our chicks are here?!?!?! After being anxious all day yesterday I was surprised to…
I figured I was long over due in giving an update on the Big Freeze of a week or so ago. The good news is that plants can be surprisingly resilient! We had some burned cabbage leaves in the greenhouse, loss of some of our…
Greetings from the farm! How are we doing? It’s cold. The dog’s water bowl had a thin layer of ice on it in the house this morning, so I guess it’s around 32 degrees in here. The space heater in the bedroom is thankfully keeping…
Hello there! We have had quite a hiatus from connectivity, but now we are back. Randy got everything hooked up last night – and we may not have heat, but we have the internet (does that say something about our priorities?). A lot has happened…
