Category: <span>Farm Animals</span>

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Baby Time

It’s baby time on the homestead! (No, I’m not pregnant. Although my beautiful sister-in-law is and I’ll be blessed with a niece in July!!!) Three of my hens became broody and we’ve had an abundance of eggs so I just decided to let them brood. After a few weeks I candled the eggs and left...

Rooster Stock…A Real Food Elixir

For the last month we’ve had regular rooster crowing on the hour every hour, on the hour, beginning at 11pm. Our community is located in small valley atop a little mountain range and every animal noise is amplified and echoes, so not only were we ultra frustrated with our noisy roosters, but so were our...

Old Cameras

My husband loves shooting photos with old cameras. He comes from a family of photographers and I can boast that my grandmother was a photographer as well…but Brendan is the one who has continued the family hobby. Remember the days when you had to take your film to the film store and wait for your...

Ducklings!

We’ve got a lot of baby action happening on the farm. My favorite baby animals (at least for the moment) are ducklings! The local feed store gets chicks and ducks every spring. This year I grabbed a box to bring home a few… But that turned into 12. We let them play in my parents’...

Real Farm and Turkey Tales

Real Farm and Turkey Tales

Just a few days after Thanksgiving, hopefully you’re still in a turkey mood because I have a few turkey tales to share with you today. Two days before Thanksgiving, one of our bronze boys was missing. I looked all around (well, almost all around) for this turkey. Seriously, spending months and months of money and...