Part II: What are the Stones growing this winter in the Clartic Circle?

Hopefully we will be growing more chickens!

You might be a redneck if you take a cooler and convert it to an egg incubator.   Or maybe it's just that your name is Tim Stone!

After loosing another couple of our chickens to neighbor dogs two things happened.  The first is that we have officially decided that we can not free range chickens at our house unless we are horribly cruel individuals.  The second is Tim began to figure out how we could increase our flock beyond the four remaining chickens without spending too much money.  By the way, the four ladies have not started laying just yet.  Should be any day...

Tim came across this informative video on YouTube about how to build a redneck incubator out of items laying around the shop.  The required items included our cooler, a fan, a light bulb,a piece of acrylic, some hardware cloth,  and a spare aquastat Tim had laying around from his reef.  He took the temp/hygrometer transmitter out of the green house for a few days so we can see the temp on the wall inside the incubator.  Once the incubator was built, we received 24 fertilized eggs in the mail and Tim has taken on yet another role, mama hen.

Series: What Are the Stones Growing this Winter in the Clarktic Circle? Part I

Starting today I'll begin a new series.  What Are The Stones Growing this Winter in the Clarktic Circle?

Piles of snow....  ok, so WE aren't growing the snow, but the depths of snow are certainly already growing.  

The chicken coop covered in snow.  This is why it is insulated!

The snow has already reached the tops of the raised beds and collapsed the plastic on the north bed.  Another one of today's projects will be to remove the covers.

We woke up this morning to about 18 inches of snow covering everything.  After about 2 hours of snow removal (blowing the driveway, clearing the deck and shoveling off cars), the snow plow came by a second time.  I always love it when that happens!  Wish me luck and safety on my drive down to Denver this afternoon.