17 March, 2015

March Updates

It's finally Spring Break!

This past month seems to have flown by and I've made several improvements around the house! 

After finishing the bookshelf in the dining room and setting up our garden beds I moved the chicks out to their next home in the laundry room. We've had the chicks for almost a month (Feb. 20th from my count) and they've certainly been growing; enough to almost completely outgrow the bathtub we started them in. 

The laundry room that I have is attached to the house but isn't air conditioned or heated. This makes it the perfect go-between for the chicks as the weather starts to warm up because the room stays extra warm. 

We moved them into a kiddie pool with a few inches of sand that I'd seen several times on Pinterest. There is also a layer of cardboard boxes underneath the pool (just to be on the safe side).


They love the extra room and are doing really well in the room with the heating lamp and heater.

In the garden we planted the broccoli and started to see some lettuce sprouting!




 The fiance threw away my toy snake so he's no longer there...


I also got the summer crops transplanted into larger pots and set outdoors to enjoy the sun!






 I love these pictures of my dill and basil!


Then the weather got nice enough that we could move them outside for a while which they LOVED!












 Max had a lot of fun watching the birds. He's really good with them and doesn't try to get closer than allowed. We're pretty confident he's going to be a great watch dog! 



It was fun to watch them pick and scratch at the yard and pull up worms that they would then fight over. The little guy in black with the white dot on his head was REALLY good at finding worms. Once he did he would run around screeching to try and keep it away from the larger birds.

We definitely have two roosters and two hens so far. The smaller ones are harder to tell but in the next few weeks we should be able to tell.

We've started to build the chicken coop which will be my next post so stay tuned! 

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