{"id":10833,"date":"2025-02-20T18:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:49:48","slug":"the-suns-out-and-the-birds-are-singing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/02\/20\/the-suns-out-and-the-birds-are-singing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun’s out and the birds are singing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, at least some of the birds are singing. Our temperatures are in a warming trend now and boy are we ever glad. We’re already into our second year’s firewood. (We try to keep two years worth every year, just in case\u2026) With below zero temps, we were using nearly double the wood we do when it’s even a little warmer, burning two stoves, the living room and kitchen stoves. It looks like my peppers will be planted this <\/em>Friday, instead of last. Thirty-five above <\/em>zero with night temperatures of twenties sure beats what we’ve been having!<\/p>\n

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With today’s egg prices, a basket of our homegrown eggs is priceless!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the economy in such a whirl, I’m seeing more folks who, evidently, are thinking like us, that we’d best grow all the food we can as prices continue to climb. A lot of folks are struggling, financially, now. And it doesn’t look like there’s an end in sight. Our local store eggs are now more than $5 a dozen for “plain” eggs and up to $12 for organic eggs. Holy cow, that’s $1 an egg! Wait! I’m running out to kiss my chickens on the lips. They’re slowly laying better and better. First it was one egg daily, now we’re up to four. Come on girls! You can do it!<\/p>\n

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Our girls are gearing up to provide us, our family, and friends with lots of eggs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Besides what we grow, in the food department, we’re also going to save some eggs to hatch this year. If we can’t snag a broody hen, we’ll use our little incubator to hatch some chicks. After all, some of our hens are 10 years old (and still laying, by the way). Sooner or later, we’ll lose some of those elderly birds and need replacements.<\/p>\n

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With any luck, we might get a couple of hens who want to sit like this girl is.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s easy to incubate clean, unwashed eggs. Maybe we’ll get lucky and some of those old girls will go broody and save us the trouble of raising chicks. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, at least some of the birds are singing. Our temperatures are in a warming trend now and boy are we ever glad. We’re already into our second year’s firewood. (We try to keep two years worth every year, just in case\u2026) With below zero temps, we were using nearly double the wood we do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10837,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions\/10837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}