Happy Mothers Day!

It was a lovely hot weekend here in the great white north!

Trellis were crafted,

Coops were still in construction mode, except this weekend I worked on the prettying it up part!

Worked on the pallet garden project...

Got some heritage raspberries planted..

HIked into the revine & set some more beaver traps, & took in the beautiful weather ,and the wonderful natural sounds,saw some VERY fresh bear,deer, and beaver tracks...

Found some great junk at the local community garge sale!

Cleaned the house...a little..... It was a nice weekend! Hope yours was wonderful as well!

More recycled Pallets!

I'm so tired! Today was a fantastic hot day and I was able to get alot of work in the garden done with my super awesome friends help!  Don't mind all the mess...nothings green totally yet. Here we are about a month behind  everyone down south so we don't put our garden in until about may long weekend. Better hurry up, pressures on!!

We chopped all the pallets lengthwise into 3 and screwed them together. Tomorrow I will have to level things out a bit and finish the pathways. I want to fence the area and build a cute arbour....someday:)

These guys were so patient today, because they were desperate to come out to play, but they have eaten almost all the lawn, so I'm going to leave them cooped up for a few more days so my lawn can regenerate itself!

Sorry babes....

I know, I'm so mean....lol

Hope you had a lovely weekend!



"Coopdate"

Man, just when you think you are almost done, more & more little things pop up, but I can finally see the light!

It felt so good to know we did it al ourselves! I was so excited when I saw all these great wooden peices at one of my many favorite industrial sites! They were perfect for the gate  side of the coop. All I had to do was screw everything together. Now the fence is half finished , I will have to get another couple rolls of wire to go underneath and above my posts. Thanks goodness my hubby was there to maneuver that auger because it was a real bear in all that clay!

The stairs are up, made completely from recycled free junk, as well as the plywood on the slider doors(dumpster!)

Ignore the ugly green tarp, that's our roof until summer until we can get the used tin sheeting that's sitting  at my father in laws home 7 hours away.

Here is the galvanized planter hubby strapped onto the coop so I could fill with soil to plant nasturtiums for my chickens to eat. Slowly we are getting the water barrels organized for collection. That will be wonderful because our home water has a water softener which the chickens aren't allowed to drink because of the salt content.

And also because we have a very shallow well that drys up in the summer as it is!

Here is Biscuit again roosting for the first time! Im soo excited, and I cant believe the turkey roosts but not the chickens...weird... The back 2 chickys are australorps named Mini & Rocky. I have 20 more turkeys coming in a couple weeks as well as 14 chickens, & I cant wait!!

Yes , I love him....or her....I think....I certainly wont be eating my favorite ones......welll...boy I could be in real trouble here, Im such a softie but really I might keep this one forever...

Ahhh I needed a break so I headed to the garden to see how bad the weeds were and check out all the wonderful flowers in the garden popping up everywhere.  The kids must have been frog catching again when I found a bucket of these! Ohhhhhh to be a child again:)

Wow theres alot to do.but at least its fianlly turning green.  I guess some things have to give when your trying to turn your dreams into reality.

Good thing creating this hobby farm is a 5 year plan!

~Blessings, and a thank you to all the lovely commenter's, and kindered spirits that this blog has let me find,discover, and enjoy!

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Pallet Coop "DeVille" is almost ready!

So, we set out on an adventure building our recycled pallet chicken coop!

It was pretty fun ,but just when we figured we were making some headway it seemed to never end! Here we used pallets for the base, floor and studs.

My yard looked terrible with all the broken pallets and junk around but was totally worth saving quite alot of money:)

Then again, we had these sweet turkeys waiting for us to hurry up! these guys are one day old here. and broad breasted bronze heritage breed turkeys.

Meet Biscuit.  That is him above , they sweet little fellow behind him ended up dying unfourtunatly, so bisciut was pretty lonely.  I took him under my wing and hes doing great. Here he is 2 weeks old.

Its almost there!!! We can see the light!  It helped to have a husband who knows electrical, so we could wire in lights and heat lamps. Each side is seperate for turkeys and chickens and night.

Pallet board outside...

Nesting boxes are almost done...

We found this great window used from some neighbors for cheap, so that was a great find!

Geezzzzzzz, I love turkeys, they are so docile & calm.

This is Rocky & Mini awaiting their chicky side to hurry up and be finished...

Now to just keep an eye on all these kitties who are very interested in all the events going on over here!

Trapper Tales

Well I have been a busy little beaver! So busy in fact that Ive neglected my blog for awhile, so I'm hoping to do some catch up!  This past weekend my husband & I got our BC Trappers licenses, in a 3 day course.  Anyone who knows where I live, knows about all our beavers in our creek. Sometimes the populations get so large that culverts are plugged and our land as well as all the neighbours land floods to where you cant get home from work & the roads close!  I wanted to do something that would help, and as avid hunters we love animals, so we thought becoming trappers would be a fun hobby.  All respect to the fur bearers, every part is used and nothing goes to waste!  We also have a huge wolf population that is cleaning northern BC out of most of our deer & moose populations, and so the government has asked for help to reduce some wolf numbers.  Since they are so adaptable & hearty, we are risking loosing some wonderful animals to endangered list soon if this continues.

 Here I am in my class learning to nail beaver pelt to a drying size board.

Our instructor is great, and here he is teaching us about different types of trap settings.

Above he is prepping  a water beaver set.

Here he is teaching us a urine post set for coyotes.

Below are 2 giant nearly 60 pound beavers trapped

in our class. There are known to be more than 100 in just a few miles, so this

didn't really make a population dent in any sort.

I don't think you can see in the above picture where we learned to make wolf snares.

This is showing how to set a lynx trap

It was a great & educational weekend!

Trapping & trap lines have so much history, its interesting to learn all about how our ancestors lived off the land , and hunted & trapped.  If your interested in trapping, there are some great books out there , but nothing beats live demos and fresh air!!

great link on fur:

http://www.furisgreen.com/wildlifemanagement.aspx