Alaskan's Journal

[Finnie]

Grass actually needs to be mowed.

Tiny fat piggy sleeping in the sun,
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and pretty chickens. Spitz, Chamois color. One bantam wheaten Ameraucana in there too..
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Nice photos! You should post them over on the Spitzhauben thread.

 

[HomeOnTheRange]

When I researched there was no consensus on the proper feeding of kunekunes.

The people we know who raise them just keep them on their pasture. They do not root much if they have enough grass to eat. They also gain weight well on just the pasture.

 

[Alaskan]

The people we know who raise them just keep them on their pasture. They do not root much if they have enough grass to eat. They also gain weight well on just the pasture.

We got them in the fall... so.... zero pasture.

We now have pasture, but put them in a pen... which they rooted up in a single day...

The pen is... uh..... 20x30 or some such.

 

[Alaskan]

Pictures from today

And kid 4. He half killed a bug, to try to get the chicks to eat it. It was perfect too... wiggly, but couldn't
fly away..

Still took them a LONG time to figure out that they were supposed to eat it.

 

[Alaskan]

And.... it has been 3 years now since my dad died...

His memorial this past Saturday.

Not my best work.... ah well.

 

[Bruce]

Wow, how time flies! I remember that whole ordeal and it sure doesn't seem like 3 years ago. I think you did just fine.

Looks like it is still winter up on the mountains.

 

[Alaskan]

Wow, how time flies! I remember that whole ordeal and it sure doesn't seem like 3 years ago. I think you did just fine.

Looks like it is still winter up on the mountains.

There is a glacier over there... so never snow free.

Yeah... kind of crazy, this entire passage of time thing.

Do you see how grown up that baby boy looks???? He now has to shave!!!

His next oldest brother still has never shaved... and still looks clean shaven.

Genetics, such a hoot.

 

[Alaskan]

From yesterday

 

[Bruce]

Just wait, another month and you'll be buried in snow again

 

[Alaskan]

Just wait, another month and you'll be buried in snow again

Ha!