2023 Blogs |
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| February 22, 2023 | |
| Did a farm update and posted it on youtube. | |
| March 16, 2023 | |
| Big baking mood. Made a bunch of gluten free goodies: banana bread muffins, bread machine bread, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and four batches of no bake cookies from great grandma's recipe. I only stopped since I ran out of room. Yes thats homemade vanilla in a quart. |  |
| March 26, 2023 | |
We got 17 chicks from an acquaintence in Lake George. My gilt piggie is in heat too. The picture to the right is the chicks papa and possible mamas. |
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| March 31, 2023 | |
| The chicks have most of their wing feathers now. My sister is going to incubate us 2 batches of chicks and another friend is incubating me a batch too. At this rate I might have enough for meat in the fall too. | |
| April 1, 2023 | |
| We milled over 1000 pounds of pig food. Took 4 hours for two of us. 5 cans full. Each can usually holds about 250 pounds. |  |
| April 13, 2023 | |
| Moved my chicks batch 1 to my aunt's chicken coop next door until we get our venting and doors in the shipping container/barn. She has a small brooder built into the storage room attached. |  |
| April 16, 2023 | |
| Hubbie took a picture of Kaylee's baby bunnies. Most of what I've seen have black stripes on them, even if they're faint. |  |
| April 17, 2023 | |
| A family friend brought me 5 chicks from L&M that she had bought for someone else only to find out that that person was getting out of chickens. So yay for me! 3 are a Sameeze or Samie or something...can't find the breed. The other 2 were an Austra something she said. They have black wings with white wing edges so far so they don't look like Black Australorps or Austra Whites....I have no clue. |  |
| April 19, 2023 | |
| I got 25 chicks from my sister that she incubated just for lil old me! They look like lil penguin babies in their tiny tuxedos. She has a Saphire Gem rooster and her hens are Barred Rock, Dominique, Wyandotte, Saphire Gem, Aracaunas, Easter Eggers, and Rhodes Island Reds. We'll get quite the mixed bunch! |  |
| April 29, 2023 | |
| We got more chicks from my Lake George acquaintence too. They hatched more than a week ago already, but they wanted to swing by and look at my bunnies and bring them by too. |  |
| May 8, 2023 | |
| Sold eight bunnies today! Mostly flemish does, but Dorian our large rex buck went too. | |
| May 13, 2023 | |
| Moved pigs to the pen. I have a video on youtube of them investigating a little. |  |
| May 14, 2023 | |
| Bought 26 chicks that my sister incubated for me. |  |
| May 15, 2023 | |
| Moved the first round of bunny rabbits to the field tractors. | |
| June 4, 2023 | |
| We picked up five goats. The large one is Mama Nellie. Her babies are the mostly white doe (Aurora "lil beasty") and the red wether (George). The black doe with white blotches is Maleficent (Millie) and the carmel buckling with white blotches is Carl. |  |
| June 30, 2023 | |
| Chicken barn is finished! We moved 46 of our chickens over. | |
| July 3, 2023 | |
| We brought home five more goats. We have 2 Nigerian Dwarf doe sisters Rayne (Mostly black with a few white spots) and Willow (Half black and half white with a few black spots). A non related Nigerian Dwarf wether named Parker who is pretty gray (pictured to the right). Also got two Nigerian Dwarf wethers that are about 3 years old. Currently calling them Jeff and Bob since the plan is to butcher them once we have time. |  |
| July 9, 2023 | |
| We butchered Straw the pig today. We probably got about 225 pounds off of him. Now have bacon sections in brine in the fridge. | |
| July 16, 2023 | |
| Butchered eight aggressive roosters today. The coop immediately calmed down. | |
| July 17, 2023 | |
| Moved the remaining 24 chickens to the barn and fixed up my aunt's coop. Cleaned it out and filled her feed can as a thank you for borrowing her coop. | |
| July 19, 2023 | |
| Chicken run done. It runs along the shipping container barn so its 40 feet by 8 feet roughly. We ran fishing line across the top to create a mesh to keep out the owl. So far its working for us and my aunts coop run area too. We've sighted a great horned owl with about a 6 foot wing span. Its beautiful, but it loves chicken. It took out a bunch of our chickens about 5? years ago. |  |
| July 29, 2023 | |
| Butchered Sticks the pig today. Man was he huge! Mama Bricks is even bigger, but she hasn't had her babies yet. Sticks was probably closer to 300 pounds. Took us 8 hours from start to finish. More bacon brining in the fridge. | |
| July 30, 2023 | |
| Took our old growout cages and took off some of the wood panels, fenced the holes, fixed some bad spots, and hauled them out to the field. We've had dogs coming after our rabbits and killing them. Haven't been able to pin down where its coming from, but if its coming after rabbits it may come after small children. Sturdier cages is one way to stop the dang things. There have also been coyote sightings, but we haven't seen any tracks or signs of one of them near our rabbits. Got 5 of 8 cages finished and some of the newly weaned batches away from the mamas. Boy are those mamas happy with no babies in this heat! I took a photo after we removed sections of wood, but forgot to take any after we got some fence lined and reassembled after they were fixed up. The five right most growouts are the ones finished. |  |
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