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...
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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...
Homesteading: Birds of A Feather…
When you get new chicks, you have to keep them caged in the vicinity of the adult chickens for at least 30 days so that they are all friends when you let the chicks run free. Not the case with ducklings (at least mine). And that is why I love my little ducks so much....
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’...
Our Thanksgiving Turkey- From Farm to Table
***Let me warn you that this video is pretty graphic. The surroundings are beautiful and the video is good, but we are killing and gutting a turkey. I’m bummed that I didn’t get all of the organ meat preparing into the video. Besides not having a clear tutorial on preserving the heart and liver (avoiding...
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