タグ: DIY

▶ November 24, 2024 Non-Stop Chores Until the Giant Drink Runs Out One huge drink, one late afternoon, and a challenge: keep working nonstop on the torn roof netting until the drink is gone… September 30, 2024 Farm Notes — September 2024: Retired Hens, Handsome Roosters and Natsu on Duty Thirty little clips from September 2024: retired hens settling in, Pearl's cozy spot, Aurora on the mend, Palolo and Cloud, new shade,… ▶ April 11, 2024 Fixing the Fence and Evicting Hens — Farming Is a Real Workout I put up steel hardware cloth where the goats keep breaking in, then wrestle stubborn hens out of the packed nest boxes.… ▶ March 25, 2024 Hens on the Loose! Egg Rounds and Another Secret Exit Ryu is turning into a fine rooster, the goats are hard at work, and the egg round comes with pecks. Then hens… ▶ November 19, 2023 A Baby Goat Is Born — and the Goats Get a Home of Their Own After a long break: our 'mowing crew' mother goat gives birth to a healthy baby boy, and we turn an old building… ▶ April 12, 2023 A DIY Water System for the Rabbits — and Moo-chan’s New Home With so many rabbits in our care, water bottles couldn't keep up, so I built a tube-fed drinking system. Plus playground news… ▶ March 25, 2023 A Bigger Playground for the Baby Tortoises (After a Measuring Blunder) The baby sulcata tortoises are palm-sized now, so I turn the flower bed into a fenced tortoise playground, after cutting a whole… ▶ March 24, 2023 Playground 2 Is Open: Double the Space for the Chickens The long-planned second chicken playground is finally built on our old field. Opening day brings snacks, a papaya surprise, and guinea fowl… ▶ March 18, 2023 Storm Gusts, a Roof Repair, and the Sheep Move to New Grass Hurricane-strength gusts nearly tear a roof off, so I brace it with a frame. Then Blueberry, Strawberry and Watermelon move to a… ▶ March 4, 2023 31 More Rabbits Arrive, and a Guinea Fowl Keeps the Peace I build rabbit hutches just in time for 31 more rescued rabbits, the bantam ladies star in the March calendar, and a… ▶ February 20, 2023 Our First DIY Rabbit Hutch Is Finished A search for a cheap cage led to a hundred rabbits needing help. Now the boys' team has a roomy new homemade… ▶ January 7, 2023 Star Is Back in Top Form, and I Finally Get My Own Tools Star's feathers have grown back and his pneumonia is gone. Plus a busy feeding round and unboxing the power tool set I… ▶ December 17, 2022 Booth-Style Dinner for Five Farm Cats (It Sort of Worked) Feeding time with five kittens is chaos, so I built cardboard lanes, one cat per lane. Some got the idea right away;… ▶ November 12, 2022 How We Raise Mealworms in a Simple Plastic Box Our mealworm setup — a vented lid, wheat bran bedding and a few root vegetables — that turned one pack of 50… ▶ November 11, 2022 A Birthday Surprise from a Neighbor — Meet Kannazuki Ichigo grows up, little Pineapple muscles into the big birds' room and ousts Trumpet, and a neighbor hands me a blue bantam… ▶ November 7, 2022 Kirin Moves Up, a Guinea Pig Playground and a Mealworm Festival Kirin moves into a bigger room with a perch, I build a playground for our guinea pigs, the flock goes wild for… ▶ October 29, 2022 A Home Just for the Pigeons — Our DIY Pigeon House Is Done! We build a 240 x 240 cm pigeon house from scratch, Happy moves in right away, and the rescued pigeons get off… ▶ August 5, 2022 Nine White Pigeons Come to Stay with Happy Nine white pigeons whose home could no longer care for them join Happy, Kiwi snuggles in, the papaya shoots up, and I… ▶ July 2, 2022 Our Finger Limes Have Buds! Repotting with Homemade Compost You asked how the finger limes are doing: they're bushy and covered in pink buds. Today I repot them into farm soil… ▶ June 3, 2022 DIY Expansion, Part Two: The Coops Double in Size We extended the coops to twice their size, with a new roof, more shade and lots of airy netting. A room tour… ▶ May 27, 2022 Finally Finished: A Hospital for Rescued Chickens, Built from Scrap With help from volunteers and almost entirely free scrap materials, we built an isolation "hospital" for sick or not-yet-tame chickens — 7… ▶ May 23, 2022 Twice the Room: We Expanded the Chickens’ Playground! With volunteers we doubled the chickens' playground, then let everyone out — including roosters who'd been kept apart. Cue some rooster drama. ▶ May 12, 2022 Episode 60: The Chicken Paradise Project Begins on Our New Land February 24, 2022: we signed the lease, borrowed a friend's truck, mowed grass taller than me, built our first coop on the… ▶ April 30, 2022 Peach Is Found, a Fly Trap Goes Up — and Meet Carl The runaway chick Peach is safe, I (clumsily) set up a fly trap, and meet Carl, a big Plymouth Rock rooster who… ▶ April 24, 2022 First Lettuce Harvest, a Homemade Feeder — and Meet Poppy 2 Some lettuce started to bolt, so the chickens got our first harvest. Plus a homemade feeder that holds about 30 kg, a… ▶ April 19, 2022 Five New Nest Boxes, Iruka’s Odd Feathers — and Meet Lilac The nest boxes got so crowded that five birds tried to share one room, so I built five new ones from scrap… ▶ March 21, 2022 Grape Snacks, Rooster Habits, a Quarantine Pen — and Meet Taro How I cut grapes for the flock, a rooster habit you can spot at snack time, a simple pen for keeping sick…