Friday the garden was in good shape for discing so Matt and Rafe did a little farming.
Saturday as soon as I got home from class we went to Tractor Supply and bought a 6.0HP Troy-Bilt rear tine tiller with counter rotating tines. A long longed-for addition to the farm. Matt says, “Soon it will be me and Troy in the garden.”
Today Matt and I spent three and a half hours putting up cattle panel trellis for the peas and cukes, and surrounding the garden with chicken wire. Then the hens had to be booted out of the garden, so we recruited the girls to round them up.
I caught 2 and Olivia caught the rest. She’s quite the farmhand. Madeline just didn’t have any luck at it.
By then it was suppertime, so we didn’t get so far as to plant anything.
The hens eat less and less of the feed I put out, now that bugs and worms are more plentiful again. I only put out a pound today. And they’re laying more eggs again – 24 eggs today out of the 27 hens. Now to get some egg sales!
I really like all the pictures you post. I don’t know how you find time to take them though. So much work to do on a farm..
Great pics! I noticed that our chickens are eating a lot less feed now too. In the morning they make a beeline for the woods instead of the feeding area.