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Our first high tunnel

January 7, 2021

Just before Christmas we picked up a 18’x34′ high tunnel.

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crowderfarm

Chatham-Kent, Ontario
3rd and 4th gen'ers living on a 5.5-acre farm, growing 🍽️🐔🌻 for our 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. Working on our dream #homestead #crowderfarm

Pawpaws are starting!

Pawpaws are starting!

Our first incubated chicks got new digs today at 4

Our first incubated chicks got new digs today at 4 weeks old, and our young chicks took over their brooder box as day olds. Quite a difference!
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Chick hatch #crowderfarm #ckont #chickhatching #ch

Chick hatch
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Chick hatch - 4 mins sped up to 1 minute #crowderf

Chick hatch - 4 mins sped up to 1 minute
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Three early birds so far! Hatch day doesn't offici

Three early birds so far! Hatch day doesn't officially start until noon tomorrow, and at that point the first chick will already be 34 hours old.
We are livestreaming the hatch. Link in bio.

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Day 14 candling and these two eggs deserved a reel

Day 14 candling and these two eggs deserved a reel. 7 days left!
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#crowderfarm #ckont #monarch #milkweed #milkweedfo

#crowderfarm #ckont #monarch #milkweed #milkweedformonarchs #caterpillar

A few friends on our milkweed today. Three caterpi

A few friends on our milkweed today.
Three caterpillars and three butterflies.

#monarch #milkweed #milkweedformonarchs #caterpillar #ckont #crowderfarm

Candling - Day 7. I tried candling all the eggs ea

Candling - Day 7.
I tried candling all the eggs earlier today but the room was too bright to see much through the brown, blue and green shells. Tonight I was able to see much more! This one is a great example of the typical veining at Day 7.
Two weeks to go.

Been short on eggs this year and now that we're ba

Been short on eggs this year and now that we're back from holidays, we finally had enough to pull straight from the coop for the incubator.
These are Orpington, RSL, Americauna and barnyard mix covered by a barred rock roo, so it will be interesting to see what hatches.

Expanding runs this year and prepping for some new

Expanding runs this year and prepping for some new layers. Loving the variety in feathers and eggs!
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We added some new layers to our flock a month ago

We added some new layers to our flock a month ago and couldn't be happier with the new colours in our basket! #crowderfarm #chathamkentontario #farmfresheggs

Pawpaws in our backyard patch are ready, and I'm c

Pawpaws in our backyard patch are ready, and I'm certainly not the first to be visiting the patch this year! #asiminatriloba #ontarionativefruit #ontarionativeplants #caroliniancanada #backyardgarden #pawpaws #crowderfarm

A few pawpaws in our patch this evening.##

A few pawpaws in our patch this evening.##

Newest keeper of the flock

Newest keeper of the flock

Our "one and done" hen hatched out one chick from

Our "one and done" hen hatched out one chick from a whole clutch of eggs. We were hoping for one or two colourful eggs to hatch (mama is an azure blue), but it looks like we have a barred rock rooster.
Hopefully one of the other two broody hens hatches out some pullets to add to our laying flock.

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Box full of pretty eggs

Box full of pretty eggs

There goes Grandpa's big old ash tree. It has sat

There goes Grandpa's big old ash tree.
It has sat trimmed exactly like this for decades. We've had a soggy spring and the trunk finally gave out.
John tested it and it seemed solid earlier this week.

Dew-covered rose, elderflowers, and thousands of t

Dew-covered rose, elderflowers, and thousands of tiny pawpaws. I counted over 50 pawpaws on one branch the other day. A lot of these pawpaws will fall off over the coming weeks, but I haven't seen this many over the six years we've lived here.

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