so they've been having a really good jumping up on the edge of the box and type groping around i've got some good pictures up on the website of that and they kind of they've even learned how to hop on top of each other  expanded the box almost doubling their size because they've probably quadrupled in size and this is actually just a stopgap measure for a couple of days while i dial in their new home for the next few weeks me anyway you know why don't we go take a look that looks like still is getting ready for a little nap on the teeter totter that was exciting so let's go out and see what's next for the little hell swore i'd keep it simple and just temporary structure but you know how i am so unveil started off with a three by five box basically take a look inside and then i started thinking about it i thought well little gable on the roof there to keep the rain off and whatnot so as a basic basis of basic you know four sided box use stimson strong ties for corners makes the construction easy this is really cheap you have to buy two lumber and because you know it gets cold at night and i've got the little sensor here under there so right now it's one hundred fifty seven degrees directly under directly under the lamp in fact it's flashing on like over the scale of this particular particular thermometer so let's look at that you know this is an indoor outdoor so the outdoors under the bird lamp let's check what the and it's fifty eight degrees over in the cooler side so obviously i think i either need to move this lamp or i also bought a smaller infant and i went to the pet store bought a lizard infrared lamp instead of the big chicken burger lamp and so i got one hundred fifty water instead of the two fifty that's in there now but say oh well we'll see we'll see where the temperatures are and make vent and i have cut some wire some quarter inch hardware cloth to fit in here so they can leave this open without fear of chickens flying out predators getting in and that sort of thing so that's going to happen on both minute piece of strange plastic from work and that i used but you can see that this is an opaque plastic white plastic and so you know that will you know the sun  magnify through that is the diffusion sheet action from work so it's actually going to fuse the light give you a nice soft natural lighting without frying them i hope and that's the other thing not only do i want to see how cold and hot hit that you know third or fourth internode where they're starting to put tendrils out so i'm a little behind you want to get that string right down on them you'll get a trellis up i'm going to move one of my floaters and add a leg to it for the fourth row  this is they have to cut breeding project tall bind purple flower variegated purple green pea pods they been growing it out for a number of years real hearty variety and it does get rather tall could put a big troubles on this and it's just about time i'm convinced that they they started giving up hope that they don't find the string trees and they'll start lining outward trying to find that support that they're after have a giant red mustard which has been growing you know these both have been growing all winter long very slowly through the fall and winter but as you can see just hanging on like that they've got their roots down as soon as it warms up they just take off like crazy this is the giant red mustard that's kind of one of my favorite greens there it's you know you gotta love the color and it's got serve a spicy what is taste like was sabi really same family makes sense kind of a mild  but spicy flavor it gets a little hot down it means well give that girls try to use their cheek and that's the number cleo chickens are pretty tough i think they can take that state a little sprouting broccoli or something else that's been over winter and this is some of the purple it's purple sprouting broccoli i've ever  seen deep red beautiful color in her planted these with the belgian end of this year it was a real combo you can still see some of the end i've growing here at the base of the broccoli tended to grow at the same rate and kind of is as soon as that's as with the sprouting broccoli that's as big as that heads probably going to get what we're going to do is we're going to get right down here carefully because you can see you already have new buds coming up around it by taking this off you're going to stimulate more growth we'll start branching at these inner nodes and continue to grow to you know this this whole bed is going to be filled with these plants they're going to be a little more she's by the time we're done here so not all of them have started to do this but enough of them have that it's time to come out like i said just just top one and the leaves are edible what these guys especially in the latter part of the life you know when they're just little tiny you know they'll just have a the native brews over time yeah you see i want these then you know just i planted in bunches i put about eight seeds in each of the space things that you see here weeded  it's all about where the sun is i get this guy i'm a little late on this guy he's already put now all these little guys and you want to keep him keep an eye on that you know this guy might even go in and pull some of those little guys off to stimulate that branching that we're talking about here basically taking off that atypical mary relatives so what this plant's trying to do is reproduce so if you take that reproductive structure off it's going to try to reproduce more with you know more branches so that's kind of what is going on at that point little you know i probably should have left you know for instance one you know and then these out to point small ones out leave that big one and see if you can get a little bigger obviously we've got yes i'm driving the chickens crazy in the they think that's for them so the chickens do have of the chicken monorail which takes them over to the back forty there clear has been digging up the old corn patch from last year for me  haven't done this on the show for a while folks we start with chickens and when we can with the eggs and i guess i'll do this all earlier in the show so i can brag about or yeah a nine year old chicken in americana and she started laying in last sunday two sundays ago since you saw this and she's been first week she did a five out of seven five things out of seven days and  this week she's kind of performing the same way each one of the little jade jem shells like glass perfectly formed and camera per person is going to they're doing pretty good and some said cleo here has been laying up a store and as been acting like a layer to get to the adult stage there's a distinct difference in the look and behavior of the adult hands when they're laying and when they're not playing and that's what we're looking at right here cleo is completely spunk stir you can see she's been digging in the mud muddy she looks rather hunky and she's red in the face she's really energetic and kind of running around definitely expressing dominance over kitty kitty here ten years old winding down i'm afraid and she's actually gray in the face as you can see he says and i i noticed a pure white feather under her wing the other day and she always looks a little scruffy she's having trouble molting fully and i think she's lookin she's actually looking red in the face but traditionally when she was going to go on the way that little comb of hers would it would start to swell you know to ten times the size it is right now she looked like a big leg or in rooster almost so who knows she's you know she starts and she started a little later each year maybe she's just you know maybe by may she'll squeeze an egg out for me i know she's on the full retirement plan anyway she sleeps to about ten o'clock in the morning gets out has a little breakfast and then goes over to the hoop ouse and takes a map clears up around seven thirty raring to go pace and the fans want to be let out bucket around or grabbing it roughly i don't know these are working or not now but they are are looking a little i've been trying to get them out of the humidity zone acclimate them in a series i crack and so i've actually had the air the rootstock under the bench with the plywood keeping everything dark trying to slow them down they've been in the dark in in the cold for a couple  pretty rapidly they were they were starting to look really sick it's like so what i do is i'll hear a new hopefully in a couple days i've got the heirlooms under the on the hot burner an what's june first what's the holiday oh take a look at the  old plant that we started a couple months ago this is a you know one of the umbrella for families like carrots dill that sort of thing as a get two good plants so i'm hoping that i can get a couple good specimens and collect some seed i've got these get to be you know six eight feet tall they are very large plant the seeds were very large and like i said a little germination rate but not too shabby