Tower Garden Update- 4 weeks since transplanting & Chicks!!!
I have been MIA for almost a month now- I’m sorry! I just finished producing my yearly high school musical (this year was “Little Women”) which literally takes everything out of me. Just keeping up with family life has been a struggle, so the blog had to go on the back burner. I have, however, kept up my garden and have managed to take a step further into my backyard homesteading adventure with new baby chicks!
Here are a few pictures of the only 4-5 weeks after transplanting the little seedlings. It never ceases to amaze me how fast plants grow! (.) And even though I said I’ve managed to keep up my garden…with the that pretty much entails checking once a week to make sure there’s still water in the tank.
While the Tower Garden eliminates most pests, I noticed a few aphids on one plant…then I saw this little red guy came to eat them all up!
Don’t forget, you can have a just like mine. I sell these wonderful contraptions and would love to chat with you about getting your own. Check out , or feel free to directly with questions!
And now for the chicks…
On the way home from a homeschool field trip last week, I saw a feed store and made the impulse decision to bring chicks home. (Just an incentive for my husband to make a coop!) We’ve been planning on having a small backyard coop of chickens to give us a few home raised eggs and help us compost our food trash so we don’t waste. It’s amazing how much we throw away now that we don’t have chickens when we used to be able to just guiltlessly give kitchen scraps to the chickens for recycling into fertilizer and nutritious eggs. I’m looking forward to keeping these beautiful Buff Orpingtons fat and happy with our kitchen scraps. I also can’t wait to eat some homegrown eggs again. If I’m successful at all my endeavors, I will prove to the world how even a small little yard can sustainably produce a lot of food for a family. You don’t need to live on acres of land! (I say that now, but just wait ’til I’m dying to raise goats or a milk cow again!)
I’ll keep you updated on all our backyard homesteading adventures!
Baby Chicks As
Pets in
Heartwell, Nebraska
We have many Rare Chicken Breeds for sale in Heartwell Nebraska,
including Sussex Chickens, Welsummer Chickens, Turken Chickens and more.
Be sure to check out the Bargain Specials, as you can combine different
egg layers in smaller amounts and buy as an assortment. Heartwell
Nebraska also has poultry equipment for sale, game chickens for sale in
Heartwell Nebraska, bantams for sale, ducks for sale, geese for sale,
turkeys for sale, guinea for sale, peafowl for sale, pheasant for sale,
chukar partridge for sale, bobwhite for sale, many different breeds of
baby chicks for sale in Heartwell NE.
Baby Chicks Baby
Chickens in
Heartwell, Nebraska
Thumbing through a baby chickens for sale in Heartwell Nebraska
catalog is a yearly traditions in many houses. My kids and I eagerly await
the Murray McMurray Hatchery catalog. We love looking at all the cool and
different chicken breeds available. Catalogs are free so head on over to
their site and request one if you are interested.
Typically hatcheries online offer both standard breeds
and bantams. Bantams are fun hardy little chickens, they lay tiny eggs
that kids especially love collecting. Bantams typically weigh less than 2
pounds when full grown. Just like ordering anything online there are pros
and cons to ordering baby chicks online. Pros of buying baby chicks in
Heartwell Nebraska * Big Selection - If you are wanting a large
variety of different chicken breeds and egg colors, you will find the best
selection at an online hatchery. * Both Bantams and full sized chickens
available * You get to choose what sex you want. If you want a mixture of
both male and female then choosing a "straight run" will save you money
and you will get a mixture of male and female chicks. You can also choose
all males or all females too. * Weekly specials. Hatcheries have sales on
chicks, you are likely to get a good deal if you are flexible with the
breeds you are wanting. Cons of buying baby chicks in Heartwell
Nebraska * Order early to get the best selection. Certain breeds sell
out fast, sometimes as early as 6 months in advance of shipping! If you
are wanting a certain breed it's best to order your chicks in the fall
before their orders sell out.
Baby Chickens Under Lights in
Heartwell, Nebraska
Quantity - you must order a certain number of chicks. Typically hatcheries
will require you buy a minimum of 25 chicks at a time. The number is
necessary for the chicks survival during shipping. All 25 chicks are put
in one small box without heat. They are crowded in the box and produce
enough body heat to arrive in good shape. * The wait - If you choose to
buy chicks from a feed store you will have them the same day but if you
choose to go with a hatchery you have to wait until they are ready to ship
and then wait for the chicks to arrive. Ordering baby chicks online in
Heartwell Nebraska is easy and has always been a very pleasant
experience of me. It can be a little frustrating waiting for the chicks
but it's so worth the wait. When the post office calls and you hear all
those little "cheeps" or "chirps" in the background you'll know the wait
was worth it! How to Care for your new baby chickens in Heartwell,
Nebraska Baby chicks are very
adorable and
hard to withstand,
but it's finest to prepare for their
arrival before you get them. Prepare first
by compiling not just the
correct products, however
likewise the appropriate
expertise to take care of
them. Raising baby chicks is relatively
basic, you merely have to supply them with the following: A tidy and warm
habitat Plenty of food and also water Interest and also
love Environment Your habitat could be a basic box, aquarium,
pet cat service provider, or guinea
porker cage. Line it with old towels and also
coverings (with no loose
strings!) to begin, and also after a
couple of weeks utilize straw over newspaper.
Keep in mind: Avoid making use of just
newspaper or various other slipper
surface areas-- or your chicks legs could expand
malformed. You also require
something to provide food and
water in, such as a chicken feeder and also water
recipe from the feed shop, or a pickle container
cover for food as well as a pet dog bird water dispenser from an animal store. Also, as the chicks grow older you can introduce a perch
right into the environment to get them
educated on setting down. Warmth To
keep your chicks warm you should
provide them with a heat resource.
This can be as easy as a 100 watt
light bulb in a reflective clamp design lamp from a
hardware store, or an infrared reptile heat
light bulb also function effectively (my
referral). Chicks need this
heat 24/7 till their downy fluff is
changed with plumes (which could use
up to 2 months). The recently
hatched out need a temperature
in between 90 and also 100 levels,
as well as every week this could
be lowered by
approximately 5 degrees or
so. The warmth source should get on just one side of the cage
to enable chicks a range of
temperature levels. The chicks are your finest
thermometer- if they are hiding in the
opposite edge of your heat
lamp, you need to
minimize the temperature. If
they are smothering each various other under the
heat (not merely curling up),
you have to add some warmth.
Housekeeping
Sanitation is crucial and it maintains your chicks healthy. Be sure to transform
the bed linens
usually and
consistently give tidy
food and water Food as well as water.
Chicks grow extremely quickly
which calls for a lot of tidy
food and also water. Provide
sufficient in any way times as well
as examine
commonly to avoid parched as well as
starving chicks. Chick food is different compared
to grown-up chicken food, and also it can be found in both medicated as well as non-medicated ranges. Feed chick food for the
first 2 months, then
switch over to a grower food (~ 17 %
healthy protein) for another 2 months,
and then to a somewhat
lower protein feed or a layer feed
(if you have levels). Soil Some chicks want
to get a running start on taking
dirt bathrooms, while others will not take
up that activity till they are
older. If you have the room in your chick
room, introduce a tray of sand or
dirt for them to bathe in.
Attention and love There are a
few benefits to hanging
out with your chicks. Firstly, they will certainly most
likely bond with you as well as
not escape as adults. Second, if you
examine your chicks daily as well as
watch their actions, you could
catch health problem or various
other troubles earlier. Watch out for hissing, limping, or
various other unhealthy
signs. Make sure to
likewise consider
their poop, as diarrhea can result in matted plumes and obstructed cloaca.
Finally, it is necessary to look out
for social problems, such as the
littlest chick obtaining teased. Vacant nest syndrome So your
chicks are now fully feathery
as well as its time for them to leave the
safety and security of your residence
and also relocate outside right into a
coop. Take a look at our
section on chicken cages to find out
more
about coops and
appropriate cage habitats.
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