Category: Fun at the Farm

A Crazy, Busy, Spring at Briden Farm!

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10 Crazy Busy Weeks

Now, I know that our closest friends and supporters know that we’re always crazy! Lately though, especially over the past seven weeks, it’s been crazy busy! 

On the 22 February we had eggs hatching in our incubator and we had been tending them for three weeks prior! So really, I guess it’s actually been more like 10 weeks of Crazy Busy here at #BridenFarm 

Soon after the Chicks hatching, we began gathering Sap and Making Maple Syrup! That of course kept us busy for a few weeks! We kept it small, mainly just for us, as this was our first Maple Syrup Season in a few years! 

Then, by the end of March, Nanna had her Kids! Kidding Season is a fun, but stressful time of year with its own set of demands. So, March just flew by, and now we’re mid April! 

The past week and a half we’ve been hauling 200 mink cages home to disassemble and use the wire for Fencing! It should be enough to fence about two acre as of pasture land. 

Oh, and somewhere in there, a friend suggested we suggest Chicken TV at Briden Farm as a series for Eastlink’s Community TV. To which we did have a reply! Now, it’s not for a Series, not yet anyway, but Michael MacDonald, producer with Eastlink Community TV did contact us and come out to do a feature on us for East Link Magazine! (Air Date TBA). 

Now, most recently we’ve made some changes, buying selling, and swapping out some of our livestock, details of which are to involved to list now, but we will cover it all in future Blog Posts! We do have some exciting new additions and we’ll tell You about them in upcoming Blog Posts! 

It’s an Exciting Day when the Vesseys Vegetable Seed Order Arrives

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Vegetable Seed Order from Vesseys

It may seem like a funny thing to some, but when the Vegetable Seed Order arrives from Vesseys it’s almost like Christmas! In fact, not to knock Christmas, but it’s almost better! After all, it means Spring is here, that it’ll soon be time to plant, and before long we’ll be eating fresh vegetables from our gardens. While we’ll be concentrating on growing what we need to survive, we might just have a few left over for sale to others.

For more information please call 902-907-0770 

#BridenFarm 

Our Chickens Are Hiding Easter Eggs

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Chicken Hiding Easter Eggs

I suppose it’s a good time of Year, it being Easter Week, and All, but we were surprised to find a nest with 22 Eggs in it!

Recently we added some hay, and moved things around, in our carport where the Hens prefer to lay! Laying Hens are funny that way!

We have nest boxes in the Chicken Coop, but the girls prefer to lay in the hay in the carport! We have put banana boxes in there, filled with hay, and they’re pretty good at laying in them. 

We typically get about 12-14 eggs a day, and after we recently moved things around, that number dropped to about half! So, I wondered if we put them off laying, but figured it more likely they were hiding them, or had at least changed location! 

Sure enough, we discovered 22 eggs in a nest at the back end of the carport, at the back end of the hay where we’d made a crisscross with the hay bales, leaving ample space for a beautiful nest! 

Now, it may be because we made the changes, but it makes me wonder if with Easter on the Horizon if  the hens just wanted us to be proud that Our Chickens Are Hiding Easter Eggs! 

PS: I have it on good authority that tomorrow morning, there might just be a Briden Farm Video about some very special Bunnies! 😉