Welcome back to the farm everybody! Today we are going to talk about new growth on the farm. Some of the growth you might expect and some you might not. Hang out and find out what all is growing on the farm. We are just shy of three weeks past planting our garden. It doesn’tContinue reading “New Growth”
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Garden: Part 2
Welcome back to the farm. The time has come to continue the garden project. In part one, we prepared a part of our yard to be a garden this year. We started out by mucking out the stall and the chicken coop, gathering waste hay, and mulching leaves. We layered all of these things andContinue reading “Garden: Part 2”
Garden: Part 1
It’s a crappy job, but someone has to do it. Welcome back to the farm! We have been away for a couple weeks and I apologize for that. I picked up about 72 hours of overtime in a two-week period at work, which limited time to write about what I was doing in my limitedContinue reading “Garden: Part 1”
Electric Fence Build
Shocking Times Welcome back to the farm folks. We are telling the shocking tale of cows with no boundaries and how we handled this! Sit back and enjoy the electrifying tale of regaining our barn from these bullying bovines! (Sorry, puns are my thing!) Shortly after we brought home T-Bone and he got comfortable withContinue reading “Electric Fence Build”
Meat Chickens: Part 3
Freezer Camp Welcome back to the farm. This is the third installment of our meat chicken project. As with any project we do, our plan is to be open and honest about the good, bad, and ugly of what it took. This aspect of the project was the toughest for many reasons that we willContinue reading “Meat Chickens: Part 3”
Meat Chickens: Part 2
The Chicken Tractor With the brooder completed just in time, our new chicks arrived on schedule and began growing quickly. We ordered thirty Cornish-cross (CC) meat chicks and opted for the one mystery chick. What arrived was thirty-three CC meat chicks and the mystery chick (sending a few extra meat chicks is normal due toContinue reading “Meat Chickens: Part 2”
Meat Chickens Part 1
Brooding on a Brooder We love chickens. They are fun to watch, they poop wonder breakfast butt nuggets, they spread fertilize and aerate the soil with their scratching. They offer so many beneficial things to the farm. There is one wonderful thing that we love but we don’t get from our chickens, and that isContinue reading “Meat Chickens Part 1”
MOOOOre Bovine Blunders
In my defense T-bone looked lonely and it was a really good deal. That is some what a theme around our farm, at least the second half of it. Hopefully this one will turn out better than others have. I heard through a friend of a family member that they knew someone with cows andContinue reading “MOOOOre Bovine Blunders”
MOOOving on up!
It was almost an ask for forgiveness rather than permission situation. I have a friend from my time training at the state fire academy that has a cattle operation as a side business. He had posted some of the young steers on his farm on his social media accounts and I made the off-hand halfContinue reading “MOOOving on up!”
Duck Duck Goose
Hello fellow Sunflowers! Today I want to tell you about another farm failure and learning experience as well as share a building project with you. Hopefully you can learn something from our follies. In early 2021 we being blessed with more eggs than I could stomach eating. So, we put up a sign in theContinue reading “Duck Duck Goose”
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