Archive for the ‘Pets’ Category

Tags: Chicken Coop, chicken tractor, Chickens, DIY, eggs

I built a chicken tractor! I bet you are probably thinking: “What in the heck is chicken tractor?!”. So before your mind starts wandering to visions of a chicken-sized farm vehicle and our chickens driving it around the property going about hilarious adventures, a “chicken tractor” is really just a portable, floorless chicken coop. I [...]

Before I moved to Puerto Rico I was into fish-keeping and had 3 fishtanks in my house. When we moved to Puerto Rico I figured it would be too hot in our un-air conditioned house to keep a fishtank from overheating and pretty much struck that hobby off of my list. Lately, we have been [...]

After building a chicken coop and buying 6 chickens from the local agro last year, we’ve really come to enjoy what the chickens bring to the table. They eat bugs, fertilize the lawn and produce tasty fresh eggs for us to eat. Unfortunately, the agro assured us that the 6 chicks we purchased were all [...]

Kuta has a pretty thick coat, which is no bueno in the heat of Puerto Rico. Before I left for San Diego, we tried to shave him, but our clippers were too dull. So, when we got back a month later, he was a stinky, wooly mammoth. I just got the new clipper blades in [...]

We have two new additions to the CA2PR family! Check out the momma horse and 3 month old baby horse that are now munching and roaming our property: We actually have these two cute horses on loan from a friend (they needed a bigger place to stay and we needed some lawn mowers), and I [...]

Cheech has been very very busy working around the property when he isn’t sleeping. Apparently, he has one job: Killer Cheech has been bringing home (he stashes all of his prizes in the guest bed and bath) frogs, geckos, lizards and birds on the regular basis. A few of the lizards he brought back were [...]

Stefan and I woke up this morning to find that Monkey’s nose has stopped bleeding! It has been bleeding for 3 days now, and it started bleeding again after her trip to the vet, which was quite concerning, but today, it has stopped and she is very happy about that! When Stefan 1st told me [...]

Chichieto was having a flashback from the night we almost ran him over, so I snapped a couple of pictures: Extreme close up!! Cheech, buddy, are you okay??!! Don’t worry, he snapped out of it…

I am so sick of ticks. Stefan and I could pick ticks off of Kuta and Monkey, all day long. Literally. We spend at least a few hours a week, yanking those little blood suckers off of our poor pups. And, it’s not like we don’t try and protect our dogs, it’s just that nothing [...]

Without even getting into the DIY projects we have around the house (hanging fans, light fixtures, organizing tools) Summer being gone exemplifies to me that it definitely takes teamwork to take care of this house. Man, who’s idea was it to build such a big house? Kuta and Monkey do a really good job scaring [...]