Kathy is out of town right now, so I’m stopping in on the birds this week As usual in Colorado, we’ve had highs in the single digits this week (Tuesday) with snow and then it was about 55 degrees yesterday midday. What do you do? When I checked the birds Tuesday, they were happy to [...]
July 25th, 2011 Our hens are getting to be about 5 months old and we knew we were going to need to create nesting boxes soon. The have started “nesting” in the yard, and while there are no eggs yet we think they will be showing up soon. Our original idea was to cut a [...]
We live right on the edge of town where the foothills turn quickly into mountains. So even though I don’t feel like we live in the woods, we share our space with a lot of wildlife. Right now there is a herd of about 11 bachelor bull elk wandering the neighborhood and a larger herd [...]
The short answer is YES! Ducks are tasty! However “could we raise ducks and then eat them?” is a whole other question. We have 2 major dilemmas with this proposal: 1) ducks are super messy. Everyone we talked to warned us about this before we got birds, but we kept thinking “how bad can it really be?”… [...]