Chickens
We've not been idle around here lately, but I've had less time for making art. I finished laying our water pipes in the back field, then immediately began planting new trees and trying to give our struggling fruit trees a new lease on life. We cut five foot lengths of 3” PVC pipe and planted them upright a foot or two from our trees and about a foot and a half deep. The idea is to fill the pipes with water and let it slowly seep into the ground for deeper watering. We refurbished our old chicken coop, including building nesting boxes, a PVC feeder (idea courtesy of the folks at Avian Aqua Miser (http://www.avian aquamiser .com/) and a water reservoir from a kit that also came from them. One important note for making a similar feeder is to use a 45 degree elbow rather than a 90 so that the feed more easily slides into the trough. I glued a test cap at the trough end instead of a regular cap because it cost less than a dollar. The $4 cap at the top isn’t glued on so we can take i