If you are a gardener you might be thinking of taking a trip over to Sunnybook Farm for some free chicken fertilizer–be prepared to shovel your own.
Bridget with two buckets of fertilizer gold, well gray.
There’s more to share. Chicken manure has a lot of nitrogen so it brings out the green of plants–not the blooms–bring containers if you have them otherwise I have a few more buckets to share, too.
I heard from another gardener who wants to give me a hand cleaning out the chicken house and taking some of this treasure home. Maybe they will drop by later today.
You can’t beat this deal–free fertilizer. It’s definitely a win-win opportunity. For me, it’s a big win.
This is an honest offer. Come to our farm with a bucket or bag and you can have free fertilizer. Many should jump at this offer, at least I hope so.
The free fertilizer is actually chicken manure. It is dry chicken manure, but there is a catch. You have to shovel your own…out of the chicken house.
Some country people would not flinch at this work, especially if they have need of good manure.
Since we only have 8 chickens, the amount in the chicken house has composted over the last six months–I really should clean it out more often. It really doesn’t smell…really.
The chickens do not add too much fresh to the mix. These days they mostly make their deposits around the farmyard, just ask Sunny where. He searches the ‘chicken treats’ out and eats them!
I have used some of the chicken manure in my flower beds, but there’s still a lot left.
Dry chicken manure going into flower bedMy raised bed is a holey water trough.
So if you are in need of a high nitrogen, natural fertilizer contact me. I’ll even give you a bucket to take your share home.
I am not Tom Sawyer trying to get you to paint a fence, but this can be fun. Also, you get to take home homegrown fertilizer for FREE.
When we had grandchildren visiting we decided to take them to a friend’s farm. Sha-Bock Farm Bed and Breakfast is just a few miles away and they happen to have animals that are nowhere to be found on Sunnybook Farm.
Wyatt, Arianna, Serenity, and Eli looked around the farm.
The first animal spotted when we drove into the farmyard was a peacock, but it was too fast for me to get a good photo. Chickens also roam the farmyard. Last year we got a few eggs from the Bock flock to put under our setting hen, so a few of our birds are related.
Next the children got to view the llama and alpacas that live at Sha-Bock Farm.
One large Llama in the back, surrounded by assorted alpaca just days after sheering. Eli tried getting a closer look.Jeb Bock said his alpaca haven’t forgiven him yet for their spring hair cuts.Serenity, Arianna, Wyatt, and Eli enjoyed their visit to Sha-Bock Farm B&B
I think anyone who would like to relax in the country would enjoy their time spent on the Sha-Bock Farm B&B. You never know, you might be faster and get a good photo of their pea fowl. Check them out online at: http://shabockfarmbb.com/index.html
We were surprised and thrilled when Rachel told us her family would like to camp on the farm Memorial weekend. It’s a good thing they couldn’t come Friday night or they would have been camping when the storm thundered through our area.
They arrived at noon on Saturday, just in time to make lunch for all of us. Afterward, they set up their tent in our campground, otherwise known as our backyard.
camping beginsSetting up the tent is a family eventMission accomplished by a family that works togetherBob enjoyed watching the show as the tent went up. All I did was take photos.
Bob and I haven’t been able to take our 2-wheel drive cart all the way down to the woods yet this year. Too much rain has made part of our farm lane a quagmire. In earlier years, we didn’t let that stop us. If mud got the best of us we got out and pushed, be damned the yuck. Now with Bob’s health issues, we don’t want to risk it. Getting stuck might mean a long walk home.
Usually, I take nature photos. The best I could do today was a snap of six ducks in a ‘lake’ in the middle of one of our crop fields–too much rain this year isn’t good for any farm. (No, the water shouldn’t be there.)
Look hard and you will see the ducks above this caption.
Most of the local birds, like sandhill cranes, are nesting now so they haven’t come out to greet us yet, but we hear them so we have hopes to see our crane family soon.
This photo of ducks was taken a few years back in late September. The crop around the waterhole is soybeans.
These ducks were a little easier to spot.
We’ll have to start bringing our binoculars out when we take our cart rides if the wildlife stays at a distance. Hopefully, the weather will change and dry up the land–for a while–so all farmers can get out on their fields, even retired ones.
