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38 hens (3 EE, 5 turkens, 5 red sexlinks, 5 silver laced wyandotte, 2 new hampshire reds, 23 black sexlinks) 1 silver laced wyandotte rooster Currently 0 meat chickens, but only because we butchered 24 a couple weeks ago and we are getting ready for the next batch. We can get some next week...

I really want some Marans next spring, but now I think I'm going to have to add Welsummers on my list too. :cool:

Does your county tax assessor have their records online? You can check to see what it's valued at and sometimes it will tell you what it last sold for or what similar lots have sold for. The county has our 5 acres valued at only $20,000.

We're building them ourselves as cheap as we can. Mark's dad gave us some steel beams that we will use for the shop and a friend of the family gave us a whole bunch of plywood concrete forms that we are going to use for the walls. The barn will probably be a pole barn made out of what ever we...

Your mud looks like mine and my children are oompa loompas on a regular basis. It drives my MIL crazy that I let my kids get so filthy playing in the red dirt. I figure as long as she's the one who is crazy and the kids are happy I must be doing something right. :lol: My bathtub has a...

My mom owns a daycare in Idaho and she gardens with the kids. She always makes all her meals from scratch too, homemade whole-wheat bread every day, smoothies from fresh fruits and veggies for snack several times a week, and no processed crap. They are the best fed kids in the state!

We have never vaccinated any of our cattle and very rarely have we ever lost any to disease. If we sell them at the sale barn and a big buyer buys them, he re-vaccinates everything before shipping it to the stockyards anyway, why give the consumer a double dose? Not to mention the cost. If we...

If this is such a concern, then teach the kids good agricultural practices. That is part of what teaching a child to garden is all about. I'm sure the kids could do a heck of a better job than big ag can.

Well we got the trees planted on Saturday, but DH cut the phone line digging one of the holes. So I've been experiencing internet withdrawals for the past couple days. :lol: Actually, I seriously considered not having it repaired and saving that $45 a month for the internet but I have one...

Good Luck on your move! How far do you have to haul your ark?

How do you do that many all in one day? After 6 my back hurts so bad I don't want to do anymore!

I wish we had someone to take ours to. We just finished butchering 6 of the remaining 12 birds and I'm spent. The 9 we did two weeks ago took half the time than the 6 we did today. I would have never imagined how much extra time a bigger bird would take to butcher.

I know I saw a post about this several days ago, but for the life of me I can't find it. I juices several pounds of apples little over a week ago, covered the jar and put it in the pantry. Today I noticed there is mold floating on the top. Can I just strain it off or is the whole batch...

Well, we ended up spending last weekend mowing and weed-eating my MIL's yard, so the meaties are once again on the chopping block to do list. We also bought three 18' red maples to plant in our front yard. A contractor had ordered a bunch of the trees from the local garden center for a new...

Lots to do this weekend. I convinced DH to help butcher the remaining meaties, 12 in all I think. We've also have three batches of jerky marinating in the fridge that I need to finish tomorrow.

I've been covering my raised beds with chicken wire to keep the chickens from scratching up my plants. It's been a slow process, just doing one or two at a time. I covered the 5th one today, just 5 more to go. :D Got all but one bed weeded. Even the ones that don't have anything in them at a...

Venison roast, potatoes and carrots are in the crock pot. Probably a green salad too.

:frow Welcome, and thanks for my early morning laugh :lol:

Eww! I'm not surprised, but still that is just wrong.

Broccoli and Cauliflower is in the garden and doing well. I noticed this morning that my peas are coming up. The garden calendar said not to plant peas until February, but I had leftovers from this spring and I thought I'd experiment. I need to get some spinach replanted. I wonder if I can...