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Poultry

Temporary Abundance of Eggs

We’re getting all the girls and boys (poultry) lined up for producing some incubatable eggs – breedings that will result in meaty birds or replacement layers and brooders.  In the mean time, waiting for indiscrete fertilized eggs to pass, we’re being forced to consume a lot of eggs.  Ultimately it isn’t a problem, but so … Continue reading »

Categories: Christmas, Easter, Eggs, Thanksgiving | Comments Off on Temporary Abundance of Eggs

Bran’ New

Bran’ New Goslings, my entry for this week’s Header Challenge.  And yes, it was my choice for the theme, and yes, I knew exactly what I wanted to put up, so yes, I picked the theme to fit my picture!  I don’t usually take advantage of my choice week like that but I couldn’t resist.  … Continue reading »

Categories: Just Now (Phenology), Poultry, Spring, Weather, Wild Birds | 9 Comments

Pipes in the Hippy Hot Hut

No my eyes aren’t red this mornin’.  But when the theme for the Header Challenge was picked as Pipes for this week I knew exactly what pipes I would be takin’ a picture of.    “But wait”, you say.  “Your header is of a rooster crowing?”  Yes, he does have a heck of a set of … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Greenhouse, Poultry, Seasons | 11 Comments

Exhaustion

I’ve had it.  I’m pooped.  I don’t need any more things to do. The exhaustion seemed to begin the day I put my contact in wrong.  I cleaned the lens, rinsed it well, put wetting drops on it, put it in my eye.  Freak out pain occurred immediately and at that very moment I knew … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Poultry, Working With Animals | 5 Comments

How Much?

How much spam can a person get while gone for five days?  A lot!  Oh well. Set up in the Animals of the World Barn. Quail rides Turkey for early entertainment. So you wanna hear a sample of comments and questions that were asked of us at our turkey and quail display?  Here goes: Why do they … Continue reading »

Categories: Poultry, The Fair, Vicktory Farm and Gardens | 4 Comments

All the World is a Stage?

Well, at least our world for five days will be.  Bet and I and the Bowerman gals will be down at the Puyallup Fair for its last five days.  We exhibit our turkeys and quail in the Animals of the World Barn. We work hard setting up and then we work the crowd for the … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Poultry, The Fair, Vicktory Farm and Gardens | 7 Comments

Imagine That

It’s a foggy misty morning here at Victory Farm & Gardens, imagine that!    It is unbelievable how much standing water we have all around the farm, in places that never have water this time of the year and a few that barely have water standing in the middle of a wet winter. Remember how this … Continue reading »

Categories: Garden Methods, Poultry | 6 Comments

Ice Pellets?!

Ice pellets for Saturday, that is what a forecast for Vicktory Farm & Gardens says, ice pellets on Saturday.  Fifty-three degrees on Friday with one hundred percent chance of rain.  What is that?  One hundred percent chance.  Isn’t that a given then?  Not a chance really after all but a certainty? Gardening and Farming?  The … Continue reading »

Categories: Farm Make Over, Fiber arts, Poultry, Redecorating, Vicktory Farm and Gardens | 9 Comments

New Water System

The following post is written by EBet.  I, Lanny, am pleased to say that EBet from Paddle in the Pond will also be posting here.  She writes and posts about the sky and the wildlife around our ponds over at her blog, take some time to check it out if you haven’t been there yet. We were … Continue reading »

Categories: Poultry, Vicktory Farm and Gardens | 8 Comments

Yahooo, We Snagged a Biggen Off the List

Not sure where that list is now, but I had a list of things Vicktory Farm and Gardens needed, oh wait, I think it was in a post, not my side bar, any who, we can cross a big need off that list. We went up to Bellevue in Dirt’s big fat truck (that is … Continue reading »

Categories: Poultry, Vicktory Farm and Gardens | 8 Comments