This quilt block is a corner block. There is a patch of grass in the bottom right corner, stretching from the bottom left corner to the top right corner. It has a green bold stitching across its top. There are two chickens on the grass, one a brown patch of fabric, and one a black patch of fabric. The black patch is larger than the brown patch, and is the rooster. There are pen markings on each patch to indicate feathers and a wing. The brown patch is a hen that is looking back at the rooster.

Block-A-Day 320 – The Rooster

Tina November 16, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I think roosters can be beautiful creatures. They can also be mean, aggressive, and hard on the hens. We don’t have roosters at Sisu Farm. That means, of course, that we don’t have fertilized eggs.

This quilt block shows a table with bowls on it. In the bowls are white eggs. There is a sign next to the two bowls holding the eggs which is yellow. There is red lettering on it that says,

Block-A-Day 305 – Eggs For Sale!

Tina November 1, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Eggs for sale! This is a constant theme at the farm. Sisu farms produces brown shelled eggs which are generally larger than white shelled eggs.

This quilt block shows a teal colored winne-eggo. This is a Winnebago decked out to be a chicken nest and watering hole. The steel fabric is shaped like a rectangular winnebago with dark green windows. The windows have covers that are open and are brown. Ther is a darker blue horizontal stripe across the middle of the Winnebago. There are drawn two human doors, and one ramp with a black square for chickens. Near the back wheels are little red nipples lined up to feed the chickens water on the bottom of the trailer.

Block-A-Day 304 – The Winna-eggo

Tina October 31, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

There is a hen door with a ramp for hen access and the farmer enters by the door to collect eggs. At the bottom of the Winna-eggo is a loop of PVC with water nipples for clean fresh water.

This quilt block shows a brown piece of fabric made to look like a big rectangular box on its side with demarcated boxes in pen in it. In each box is either yellow hay, or a light rust colored hen sitting on eggs looking at the viewer. This is against a blue splotch background fabric.

Block-A-Day 303 – The Nesting Boxes

Tina October 30, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

If you have a hundred chickens you’ll have ten nests, and that’s about the ratio you want and works out the best. When we started out we had open nests just like you see here in this block.

This quilt block shows a barrel made from brown boards with a dense topiary coming out of it. The topiary has been fashioned into two separate layers, with the lower layer being much larger. In this topiary are two bird heads poking out and looking around, one in the lower bush, and one in the upper bush. There is a small gray-white bird below the large layer on the barrel and a similar bird (a Junco bird) on the top topiary perching. The topiary is made of a green fabric. This is all against a blue background.

Block-A-Day 221 – The Junco Birds

Tina August 9, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Juncos are actually ground foragers scrounging insects and weed seeds. They will come to a feeder, but you need to let them know where to look for it by sprinkling a few seeds on the ground.