Archive for Farm Fun
Snow Stack
By · December 31, 2010 · CommentsFun Photo Friday Snow Stack appeared on a beautiful frosty, cold morning. Morning chores got me up and outside or I would have missed this and other fasinating sights. A coat of frost makes ordinary look magical.
Continue reading »Nice Catch!
By · October 8, 2010 · CommentsFun Photo Friday Running a camera and throwing a giant frisbie prooved to be harder than I thought. My lab, Major, is not the most athletic but he is getting good at catching in the air with this three foot frisbie. This design seems to give him just a little more time to get in [...]
Continue reading »My Weekend Should be a Movie!
By · September 20, 2010 · CommentsI had an exciting weekend, it should be a movie. It started Saturday with a trip to the Littleton and Hazelton, Iowa area. There is a large Amish community and a friend of mine, Doris, took me to many Amish stores. In the course of the day, I bought a new saddle for a horse that came to [...]
Continue reading »Protective Parent
By · July 23, 2010 · CommentsFun Photo Friday Parents are parents no matter what species. At four weeks old the nine teenage birds decided to join the adults on the roost five feet off the ground. This one little babe still wanted to hang with mom. Momma hen was still quite protective, giving me the evil eye. I love being a [...]
Continue reading »Peeps are Hatching at Lost Creek
By · June 11, 2010 · CommentsFun Photo Friday The image itself isn’t terribly exciting but having peeps hatch at home is! Usually I get my chicks in the mail as day old peeps. Lately though I noticed one red hen has been sitting on the nest a lot. So I wondered what would happen if I let her have a pile [...]
Continue reading »Pitter Patter of 35 Pairs of Feet
By · September 25, 2009 · CommentsI was inspired to photograph these little birdies at one week old for a future art print of some kind. I did use an old white sheet for this impromtu shoot! I set up a “studio” in the Poultry Palace using natural light from the door. This is an Ameraucana breed and will lay blue, [...]
Continue reading »Lost Creek Farm-Biggest Egg
By · February 5, 2009 · CommentsWe raise three breeds of organic, free range chickens on our farm. This is the largest egg we have gotten yet. It was just at three inches long. It is so much fun to raise chickens. The two very small eggs (shown on the left) occured the first weeks of being mature enough to lay. [...]
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