Plot Wars: A Chick Tragedy

Today, a chick died.

We don't really know the cause of death. We only have our speculations.

After housing the chicks on Saturday night, everything was fine. We were happy that we are able to provide shelter and food for our new responsibilities: the 7 chicks.

On Sunday morning, we were greeted with chirps from chicks asking for food, and we obliged.

When I left the house that morning, all 7 of them were eating. When I got back mid-afternoon, one of the chicks have his head tuck under his wing and he was not moving. I thought that he was just asleep. But when I fed them again in the evening, he was still in the same spot.

Thinking now that there is something horribly wrong with it, I tried to force-fed it with water and feeds, to no avail. So I did the next thing worth doing, I added a box inside the coop and layered it with rags, then I placed the chick inside the box thinking that it must have been cold and was not shared with warmth by the other chicks. The other chicks huddled together the night before when they slept, I am not sure if this chick joined the brood since it was an outsider.

Doing all this, I slept and was awaken with the news that the chick did not survive the night.

Because we think that it was the cold weather that killed the chick, we decided to transfer the coop to the back of the house where a more secure protection from elements is provided by the walls of the house for them. So now, they are at the backyard with an additional box and lots of blankets to huddle in the night.

Let's hope that this precaution is effective and that we do not lose another one.


Daghang salamat sa pagbasa!!!

Plot Wars: Compost

Today, we finished setting up a compost area for our mini-garden...

We fenced it with ipil-ipil branches and placed the materials to be made to compost inside.

So we have grasses, stems & branches of trees, some dirt, some cow dung and a bit of water...
We plan to add to the materials from time to time until the original material is turned to soil..

So a few weeks from now, hopefully.


Also, today we planted some Aster Seeds on a tray.
Let's see in 10 days time if they grow bulbs or die out...



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Plot Wars Continues...

Today, we finally finished furrowing (or removing all the soil) the plot in front of our house. The next step is making a compost in place of the soil we removed. You might be wondering why we went to the trouble of removing all the soil.?Well, its because it's a mixture of farmland soil, cement, hollow blocks residue, and other materials that were leftovers from the house construction. I think the materials (comprises about 10%) were dumped there along with the soil was not intentional. But this type of soil composition is not really  great for growing vegetables and other plants. We are planning a spice garden after all. We want them healthy and big. So this extra work is no trouble at all.

I am just happy that we manged to finish everything in 2 weeks and can move on to the next step. Also, sorry to our next-door plot neighbors for becoming soil dumping ground. We will flatten them, we promise. As soon as we finish dumping the soil to your land area. :D

Tomorrow or next week, we will experiment on making compost. Advance Thank You to YOUTUBE for all the ideas that we already have, if they work. <3 p="">

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