Canadian Acres
Farming in the North
Are we having fun yet?
Things have been a little busy around these parts. We got home from vacation and all hell broke loose. Apparently the lack of snow brings the over abundance of farm work to be done.
The chickens are growing fast and will be 8 weeks (8 weeks!!) this coming Wednesday. Yesterday I awoke to my very first “crow” attempt which had the dogs in a tizzy – a sure sign that the freaking chickens need to get out of my house. They are adorable, yes. But messy and stinky and loud. The dogs think they are the greatest things and wait with their noses below the door on a regular basis. We have been working on Dog Chicken Relations every day, so I am hopeful that we may have a few Livestock Guard Dog’s on our hands after all not have to deal with a massacre right off the bat.
Clay and I have been putting our full attention into getting the chicken coop finished. We’ve taken some trees out and moved the sea can, stripped the interior of all the shop aluminum, sanded the floor, cut the window hole, cut the chicken door, power washed the inside, framed the partition and landscaped and measured the chicken yard. Phew. And we still have approximately 43 things left to do.
During our spare time we have been peeling a great number of logs that will eventually be the corrals for the wild horses. I say eventually because we are averaging about 5 per day between the two of us and there are 500 logs. So here’s to a celebration party in approximately 100 days! Log peeling is not easy work. But by god, I better have the best upper arm strength in the county by the time we’re finished…Am I sounding country enough yet?
Our hopes are to have the chicken coop finished by this weekend (please, god) so we can lounge about for the rest of the summer work our asses off on something else. Apologies for the straight iPhone photos, it seems I won’t have time to properly edit a photo until winter (instagram editing counts, right? (I can see my photographer friends rolling their eyes from here (triple parentheses!!)))
Ah, farm life. Are you having fun yet?
Off to paint the chicken coop and receive our riding horses… have a fabulous Friday!
~Katy
Canadian Acres 
and I thought I could protect you from the cold when you were tiny, little did I know how strong you would become. What a great life!
It’s been pretty amazing… a lot of hard work, but very satisfying 🙂
You rock! This is so fun to read, keep them coming. Can’t wait to see you in August.
Thanks Mom 🙂 Me too!
This made me very tired! 🙂 Awesome chicken coop, nothing should be able to get in that baby!
Thanks, I hope so! It has been a learning process for sure 🙂
This looks so incredibly cool!!
How do you know how to do all this stuff??
I feel like I get to be a part of all this without having to do any work…thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks Pam! It’s a learn-as-I-go situation for sure, but I really am loving (almost) every minute of it 🙂