After many months of being on strike, my red hen finally laid an egg. In reality, I think the low daylight hours effected her, so I added a light to their new coop, followed by a few threats about the stew pot. (Don’t let anyone tell you threats of the pot don’t work because THEY…
Today was interesting. We visited a chicken raising operation nearby to buy hay for the farm critters. It was a new hay dealer, the teenage son’s operation, and his dad owns the chicken factory. Yes, I’m calling it a factory because it was contracted to Tysons Chicken, which is a big player in this part…
Why homestead. This is the eternal question every homesteader must answer. Why do we do it? Why reinvent the wheel of sorts, why put out the effort? If you ask different homesteaders, “Why Homestead?” their answers are as varied as they are thematic. Usually, it’s something to do with getting back to a simpler life, reducing a…
Today was something of a sobering day here. Last summer, in the span of about a week, we lost 3 cats. Can’t really say what happened, the first was a stray that we figured moved on. Then our black cat just stopped coming around (an indoor kitty that suddenly decided to experience the great outdoors),…
After the chickens found a new roost and the loss of Mrs. Leedle a few days later, I’ve decided our chickens are safer in a coop and tractor. I thought it was odd they suddenly started roosting in the horse barn after 8 months in our storage shed. I initially chalked it up to the…
To fight boredom over the winter, and to test the horse manure I’ve been composting, I started growing potatoes inside, using the manure and left over feed bags. I just use potatoes from the grocery store. I know they’re not disease certified, but I started gardening late, and didn’t order any disease free certified seed…
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