Category Archives: Critters
Duck, Duck, Goose..
Nope, just duck! Lots and Lots of duck LOL Hold on fellew bloggers and my wonderful readers, the coming next series of post are all about how to butcher out your duck and then take all those parts and process … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Charcuterie, Ducks, freezer camp
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Chicken Feed-Protein from thin Air..sort of..
So a couple weeks back one of the blogs that I like to read recommended a new chicken book, The small Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery, now she did a glowing write up to the point that I had to … Continue reading
Miss Piggy all grown up..
Its hard to be believe that its been almost a year since we had a girls trip up the valley to pick up this sweet little purebred Large Black Piglet, she was just big enough to fit in a small … Continue reading
Chicken Ark for the Garden
Well, I am glad that a number of folks wanted to see this project but I can’t decide if I am going to please you with our little creation or not, you see it was built out of scrape wood … Continue reading
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Chicken Power in the garden
Chicken Cruiser, Mobile Chicken Coop, Chicken Tractor, or Chicken Ark in our neck of the woods, the names all mean the samething in general, a moveable pen where your chickens get to be both confined(aka Safe) and yet have a fresh … Continue reading
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Tagged Chickens, Ducks, Farm Fresh Eggs, Frugal, Garden, manure
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Hanging out with Mr. Mitten Kitten.
We spent some time outside today building a mini chicken ark for using chicken power in the garden and Mr. Mitten decided be the supervisor of the project.
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Fluff and Feathers..
A new clutch of ducklings, with a second hen still sitting on her nest.. total little fluffy tikes.. Remember these little guys.. Guess who just turned one month old and are ready for their move into the little barn Here … Continue reading
Raising Chicks 101
As I write this, I am listening to the peep-peep for the chicks and the whistle-whistle of the turkey day olds, you can tell by their sounds that they are content, its a soft sound, I had my hatching numbers for … Continue reading
Girl is a lady now..
Girl has become a proper young lady, and while to young in my mind, could be bred now, but we will wait another five or six months to make it so.. Still she is getting taller all the time, looks … Continue reading
Gardening for your critters
I know that most folks are seeing food prices going up, the size of the box’s going down, and everyone scrambling to figure out ways to cut down their food shopping bills, while still trying to feed themselves and their … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 