One Freezer Down

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

The big once a year beef order came in this week, which meant a rework of all the freezers, pulling older meat out, sorting, checking for freezer burn. Putting the new in sorted in types in fully newly emptied freezer, with the older going into the first use freezer in the kitchen pantry.

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So much sorting to be done but it needs to happen.. the chickens are going to be thrilled, thawing out some nice organs bags, some for the hounds the rest to be tossed in for the chickens to go wild on. They love their meat in winter in a big way.

The big surprise was the loss of our smallest freezer, you can look down the stairs and see the light on it, so it gets qoute “checked” regular but it turned out that didn’t matter, while it was cycling, cutting in and out, it was not working..

The good news.. it was only half full and it is our smallest size freezer..

The Bad News, it was my cheese fridge, to replace that cheese at todays store prices at least $500 to $600 at a bare min, plus what would be a $200 or so massive beef Brisket plus some really nice beef steaks, another couple hundred if bought at store prices. My guess is if we had to replace it at current store prices, we lost at least a thousand or more plus the freezer itself.

Its truly the wrong time of the year to have extra milk coming in to make cheese, so that will have to wait for spring, thankfully I have at least a few months which will need to be stretched till at least spring before I can start making and putting up more cheese.

I am just thankful that it was not holding my extra butter! Still what a waste, sadly nothing was able to be saved. Did you do a bulk buy direct from a local farmer this year or this fall? I grew my own chicken, duck, turkey, an lamb to go with what we already had in our freezers. I bought locally raised beef from just down the road from me (in farmer talk that means I can get to the farm within 15 min drive time).

This is our fourth year of buying our beef from them, I do miss having a calf/steet to a point on the farm in some ways, I like cows.. however I know that the beef I am buying has a much better life then even I could provide. I used to buy a half beef-Half Dairy calf from Farmer R and they were well started and I love raising up a calf. But I will admit that I know its better to be born and raised by momma. They have much larger pastures with great shelter belts of trees in each field.  Cows are herd animals and I know they are living their best cow/calf life. I did my best to give a good life to my calfs/steers and I did good.. but I know that the ones I buy now have even better in ways.

We raised two pigs in 2021 and we do have some pork still but not to much. I will have to decide if we are going to add a weaner or two in the spring or if we are going to buy half or whole from one of the local producers.

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Canada’s Plant Hardiness Site

Posted on January 8, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

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Very Useful information indeed. A big Thank you to the Canadian Government for this site..

Plant Hardiness Zone by Municipality

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This map puts my homestead firmly in the 5a zone which is both true and not.. like most folks I have area’s that are colder, more frost prone, higher wind and I have other area’s that are warmer microzones and I can grow and have produce one zone warmer. 

Still as a base starting point its a useful tool because as we often see in so many of the seed catalogs or the online versions that they just stop at the USA line and we are just this blank.  Its not often that you get not just the basic zone but can look up your town as well.

The seed catalogs are coming in now, I know they are arriving in mass to my mail box and I expect yours as well. The best selections will be had in the next 4 to 6 weeks of buying. I went thought a crazy amount of seed last year due to the weather, in some cases I replanted some rows 3 to 5 times. 

Today I finished my seed shopping, allowing me to get a overall 5% discount code and as I got in time for the deal, free shipping on my order. Check your catalogs when they arrive for their codes and use them to save some money! 

Even for me that is a lot of seed of some of my most common planted, add in this year that I want to try and beat the weeds by planting food producing plants in every single nook and then pull and harvest it as needed even if for fodder as the more desired plants grow and need more space.  

To say that I intend to overplant is a understatement and then some.  My indoor greenhouse and my outdoor greenhouses will be in full swing for early starts this year,  I do not expect to have much of a spring, I fully expect we will go from cool/cold spring to summer heat  YET AGAIN! and that means head starts for some things, insane mulching for others, and in ground seeding on some things with covers for others. 

If its going to be as hot I expect it will be at certain times this year, do consider looking hard at your yard and gardens and spot your half shade areas, these will be a very good thing when it comes to the heat and certain plants.  I know, I know, we all want full sun for so many of the gardens but I am telling you as the climate changes, we are going to find our half shade 60/40 is about perfect, lots of morning sun ideally with afternoon shade is going to be a much wanted garden spot!

Have fun with your seed catalogs, due check your zoning, it is moving, work on finding or making your microclimates and spot and plan to use your different shade zones in your yards. 

 

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Wacky Weather Thank Goodness for Native Pollinators

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

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We have had yet another melting record breaking highs and yet another freezing rain event plus some ice pellets and snow thrown in the mix.  Reports on the local gardener and farmer grape vine is that a number of trees started budding out. Mine did not.  Others reported a lot of branch breaking, while I had a lot of trouble with my bigger older trees, unlike so many others that have shared the news and also that I have seen while driving by, my heavy hand on pruning the past five years is proving itself to be very handy indeed.

While I did prune for fruiting ( I want the fruit) I also pruned at times that lost me fruit but pretty prepared the trees themselves for storms and weather events.  There is a younger farm that planted out heavy in fruit trees not far from me, very close in land, zoning same and so on.  They are very tradional in how they planted them out and how they pruned them.. They have often shaken their head when talking to me about my food forest/layered underlaying and have taken their time to point out to me that their trees are bigger, that they have produced more etc. I have agreed, their trees are bigger, they have started producing sooner and heavier then mine. 

On the flip side, when we both got hit by heavy early frosts, they lost whole sections of crops, where as my late season bloomers still produced, when the big storms have moved though with the high winds the damage has been so much worse in those straight rows and open mowed lines, and as I drove by today, it was the biggest trees that had the most limb damage in the past ice storms. Which makes sense, fast growth does not mean strong growth. 

Sadly these storms are also doing a number on the honey bees, I feel so bad for those that have honey producers, my goodness they have had a very rough go of it over the past five years.. So many years of losses across the whole country! I am beyond grateful for those that are still being successful and are helping produce queens for those that need replacement.  Buy local honey, Support your local Honey producer and remember honey is a amazing gift to give friend and family.  A pot of honey, some amazing tea and some homemade treats to go with is delight for all to receive!

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Having said that when it comes to climate change and being able to adapt, the native bees are clear winners in this regard here on the homestead. Yes it means that I have planted and support non-food producing spring feeder trees, but those same trees do have propose for me (willows need I say more there) plus they are massive on working with and feeding a host of natives in many ways.  To create spring, summer and fall feeding habitat does take effort and work, understanding their needs for breeding, coons or under ground nesting sites and or stems is important. Leave it messy is a very hard thing for many gardeners, add in the fact that now we need to really look at the leave it messy as a possible fire hazard depending on where you live.  

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Remember its not just the bees that act as pollinators, Ants do a pretty amazing job on a number of things! ok compared to bees they are in fact pretty poor pollinators unless its a plant that has evolved to work with the ants and then its on par.. on average they are only about 10 percent as good as a bee.. 

Here is the thing, 10 percent is not 0 by any means. if every ant that visits works its 10 percent, add that up over and its still pretty good.  What if its a overcast day or a super windy day where the bees are lean, at least when I check the ants are still out there getting the job done even if its a slower pace. 

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I have certain trees that the ants love, their favorite here is the cherries, o my gosh, the ants on the cherry trees in spring are crazy as is the tiny wee native bees, they seem swarm all the cherry trees and all the black choke cherry and pin cherry bushes and trees.  They also love anything in the rose family!

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Then come the moths and butterflies, different seasons and in some cases those troublemakers.. you will never see me excited to see cabbage moths, sigh.. those white moths are so pretty and so yet, dang those green babies are crazy eaters.  Now on the plus side if you can put in a early trap crop for them to lay on timed right, the wild birds will thank you massively for all those tasty fat baby’s to take back and fill their always hungry young. 

If you are a honey bee keeper, I wish you the best of luck in 2023, its going to be a hard year. If you are a native bee farmer like myself, I hope you have lots of coons in the fridge and even more in the wild, so that if the weather goes wonky in the spring, you can hold the coons (as I plan to do) till the weather is good for hatching in case you have a issue with the wild born in the early spring.  If you have not already done so, improve and increase the plan for your leaf cutter and squash bees populations. 

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May your yards, gardens and fruit bearing trees, bushes and canes be loaded with all kinds and sizes of pollinators! So that the fruit and veggies yields are bountiful!

 

 

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Ringing in a new year 2023

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

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Happy New Year! I expect that most of my regular readers point in fact stayed home and have a very quiet new years. 2023 is here.  There is something about a new year, its feels like opening a new blank book, it seems all fresh and new in some way. 

Of course we are dragging the past with us and the odds are good that when you put up your 2023 calendar that like me, you transferred a number of appointments into the first month or maybe even the first two months.  I promise you that our bills and must do’s all rolled over as well.

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Still it is the slow time if you live in the same zone as me, the winter has arrived and with it snow and storms. The outdoor time has been spent shoveling/snowblowing and snowshoes laying in paths for the hounds in their run area all done by Dear Hubby as I am still very much in recovery mode. My work is far more simple, pick a basket or a tub or a cupboard and try and finish cleaning, tidying it in one go without needing naps between lol.

Its the time of seed catalogs and thoughts turn to garden plans, what will we grow, how much do we need to put up, what do we need to do in the food forest, what do we need to do in the fruity boogaloo, after the big spring push to get the new layered hedgerows in “park” garden, what and where do we need to focus on next. 

I think the big project for the spring is do dig a pond in the “park” garden where the natural low slew area is. as well as while the equipment is here to do so, have them dig out and expand the big pasture pond in a big way.

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That pond is already used in a big way by the ducks and so much more.  Two Sides will be Blocked off with brush piles/limbs to prevent the horses/sheep from access from all directions and then the inner edges will be planted for bank stability and water quality, while the water access point will get a truck load of sand put in place. 

 

The park pond will be a bit different, it will be longer then wide, I have already edged that area with bushes that can handle and or like wetter feet at times, its naturally the same with the plants that are there and doing well. I will pull some for edge plants because they have already proven themselves to be productive there. 

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This will be a pond will be a collection point due to the natural slope of the land and will help hold the water there to do a slow feed out for a number of trees which will help their production for years to come, it will also be a way point and draw for so many kinds of local wildlife, it will not take my regular laying eastern red painted turtles long to find it and start using it, I plan on creating a dust bath spot with sand on one edge for the local wild birds, where on the other side, I will create a small but cleared clay area for the nature bees to use. 

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The most exciting part to me is that I plan to put in a built in photography blind with seating for wild life /bird photography. This will be a year round spot (well most likely not used in winter) but early spring to late fall for sure. 

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This will put a total of four small ponds on the farm, one in the food forest, one in the park garden, one in the small pasture and one in the big pasture. Do you have small ponds in your yard? Do you have small ponds on your homestead?  Is it natural or did you build it? How many do you have?

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Lots of Firewood and more

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Just another day on the farm

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If you live in N.A. then you are most likely aware that we have had some big storms..  We were given lots of notice that this massive slow moving storm was coming. When they started talking about the trough basicly being a level 3 hurricane winds. It was time to get prepped ahead an assume that we would be without power. Extra water pulled for livestock and house use, feed shifted and prepped, sheep had just been moved into their winter barn two weeks ago.  Hubby did the last of the wanted but not needed shopping for the holidays, laundry was full caught up and we hunkered down.

It was a good call, the storm came, the winds blew in the opposite direction then normal, this proved to a very big deal indeed, both in drifting formations of the heavy wet snow and also in how the 110 plus KM winds hit and pushed. 

We lost three massive trees(two of which you can see above that thankfully did not come down on the building) and we will need to take down the rest of one big one that split, half is down and half is still up but will have to come down. These are massive old Norway Maples, I will call it a massive blessing that we only lost one 12 by 1 inch board and some big chain link fencing panels, the rest will be taken down to get access to the other half of the one tree. 

One of the other massive ones was out by the Big Barn in the Big Pasture, and it appears to have taken out the old red shed.  We had already emptied and had started the pull down of that older building so nothing was damaged there, it will just mean that we have to deal with the tree before we can finished the pull down and rebuild, that shed has a lovely cement floor and deep below frost line cement root cellar, We will be building a new expanded shed over the floor. 

We have the equipment and horse power to do most of the tree, but I will have to hire out to get big cores cut and moved, some of the biggest will be made into slabs, which will be used in a number of ways up to an including making new benches for the different food forests, the larger limbs will go into a mix of firewood and garden structures, then next layer down a mix of firewood and garden edging, the next size down will go into a blend of garden projects, wood chips and some kindling, last but not least the rest will go into a bush pile

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We did lose power as expected and it was good, we used the shuttle chefs and just kept on. The snow kept coming and the winds kept blowing, drifts grew and after 48 hours working, the county pulled the snow plows for 12 hours even though many local roads were not in fact cleared yet. See local example of road down the way with a 5 foot drift over the road, where they needed to use their sled to do their farm chores.

Despite local warnings, despite OPP warnings to please stay home and off the roads, so many peaple still tried to keep their Christmas plans and so the local 417, 138 and more were full bumper to bumper as folks went off into ditches and flipped rigs and more. The Highways were closed, the 401 biggest highway was closed from Coburg to the Quebec border. 

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Our local county was one of two that declared a state of emergency and the area’s in towns accessable up and down the 417 highway were opened up into warming centers for strained peaple overnight and served breakfast.  Huge shout out to the local fire department, the local community that stepped up and helped hundreds stranded and in need of help. True showing of the Christmas spirit (even I personally think those that went out and were on the roads where as Red from that’s 70’s show loves to say.. Dumb-%ss

Very sadly the news is coming out that there have been deaths both here in our own country and also in the states in regards to both loss of vehicle controls and due to extreme weather. While I do not understand why they were out on the roads, I am truly sad that life’s where lost. 

Where you in the path of any of the recent storms? How did you do? Any damage on the farm?  I hope you had a safe holiday in whatever form it took.

 

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Giving the gift of food.

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Just another day on the farm

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Just like my feathered friends in the yard, I have focused on gifting food this year over gifting store bought stuff gifting.  I brought in 5 extra turkey pullets on my own order for the year and I raised them as the big gift for certain friends.   I knew that with the bird flu issues we had in 2022 across the whole country would effect the costs and availability to Christmas turkeys this year.

I just gifted out my first one last night and ” the joy and the I love that this gift was how long in the making, me five months lol) I am going to enjoy knowing that there will families gathering around the table that will be enjoy well raised healthy birds on their table.

Other meat gifts this year include Leg of Lamb, Duck, Chicken, and Grass Fed Beef and Farm Fresh Eggs.  

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While I am not doing any baking this year (I was planning on doing some but my health at this time will prevent me from doing so) but thankfully I can still offer up some jams, jellies and other canned goodies.  

I am only doing this with folks who I can trust to bring me back my jars! or in some cases, they just hand me empty jars of the same kind and size when I gift them. This works for me as well.  Jars are very costly these days and the new ones are not comparable to the good ones, I did point in fact buy a case or two of the smaller jam jar sizes of the cheaper walmart golden brand, just for gift giving.

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My  Thanksgiving, High Bush Cranberry Jelly is a huge favorite. As is my Elderberry or Black Chokeberry.  This year I also did a spiced pear jam that is delightful!

I did not “buy” anyone gifts this year, they either got Photography or Food gifts. As for hubby and myself, we have agreed to mainly a foodie christmas and new years, with each of us having a small budget for one gift gotten off the farm if desired.

Given I have just gotten out of the hospital and that I am under strict orders to hide myself away carefully at the farm during my recovery time and to not expose myself in this weaken state, we will not be having many if any guests. 

So how is your Christmas plans coming? Focused more on family then gifts? Focused more on really good meals and visiting? then big outings or holiday travel? Did you move to more homemade smaller gifts this year? Are you gifting anything from the homestead or small garden or your pantry?  

Do you think peaple are more open to homemade or handmade this year? 

 

 

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Well didn’t see that coming, what a Flu!

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Just another day on the farm

I was certainty hoping to share amazing wonderful Christmas related content this week, so here is your cute kitten and dear hubby photo lol

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This was my most popular backdrop an set up for my photography sessions and I am sure you can see why that Christmas Red Truck looks just amazing and I adore this photo of Dear Hubby being my Model while I worked the lighting and of course Sir Lazslo the Catling just adds to the photo in such a sweet way.  I have a goal in mind to take more photo of both of us over the coming year and yes that includes me.. 

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I can’t say that I like this one as much as others have but I will share it none the less.  This was a different backdrop and a lovely friend took my camera and took this for me.  I have decided that I need to be a bit more willing to do some of my own, not always hiding behind the camera. 

So I caught type A influenza and I went from my quiet putter with naps slowly feeling better, getting stronger, to hey its tuesday, I feel off and tired, huh, to weds, I have a stuffy nose and sore throat, think I might be getting a cold, to thursday in bed sicker then can be to early friday morning calling 911 and being rushed to the emerg and coming into day 4 of full isolation unit, and a crazy host of amazing drugs, Iv’s and life giving 02, which at one point got up to 10mil/liter which trust me is higher then they want and I was weaned off and down but will still be on for a good number of days yet.  

I hope to be out by the end of the week or at least by early next week, fingers crossed yes.  As the nurses say, I am young and I am strong and I am responding well (all true) but that I need to be careful and slow as this local version has hit like a freight train and it hit me but good. 

Now sometimes things do come with silver lines and in this case, the wonderful doctor I got took a good hard look at my files and said, where did you move from and I went hmm,  and she is like, I can only find issues going back over the past two years and then nothing,  

Me, ah, I didn’t move here, I have been here coming on 20 years this spring and the reason it only goes back that far is because that’s when I started needing help.. to which she went hmm..  shit certianly hit the fan health wise for you.. 

So the good news is that she has order a host of checks, tests, ultrasounds and CT scans and so on to do a full work an check up moving off what was done in aug/sept when I was in the hospital last time in an out twice with covid and my first Asthma attack.

Its not a bad thing to have these things checked and done and to get at a min full on baselines, ability to compare now to three months ago and maybe some answers. 

Not quite how I planned on spending my time this close to christmas, but you take each day as it comes!

I truly hope none of you my dear readers gets this flu and if you do, get care promptly if you can. For all my healthy readers out there, have a wonderful week indeed. 

PS, a big thank you to all the nurses and doctors and health support staff in all ways that are coming in daily and getting it done.. Bless you all!

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Finally! The Maverick

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Just another day on the farm

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Well, after close to full years wait, our truck finally arrived on the farm. So far, we have been very pleased with it, Its already done loads of feed, hauled in loads of different items for planned winter projects, the cover has been taken off and loaded up with crates and turkeys to be hauled to the butcher. 

Yes, this year both the chickens and the turkeys went to be butchered off farm because my health and related issues have made that this was the better choice. I have mixed feelings on it to be honest. It was one of those times my wants (home butcher has many factors I perfer) that crashed hard against get it done.  Its very much been a get it done year.

The birds are a prime example of get it done.  I didn’t raise slow growers, I didn’t raise heritage, I bought White Meat chicks and I had them all done at 9 weeks right to the day, I didn’t buy or hatch or raise heritage turkeys support small local breeders this year, I bought Mini Classic Turkey mix sex pullets from Freys and I took them in to be done at 12 weeks to the day. 

We had a very good year, I have heard from a lot of other folks they did not, they had bad losses, I am honestly not sure why. We did not, we had no chick issues, we had no leg or heart issues, we had very small loss only during a storm where we lost power for days and the very weakest chicken went due to the lack of heat lamp.  It was no surprise to me that the inspectors, look at mine and told me that they were outstanding birds and that they passed with flying colors. Nice to hear I guess but much more important that I know it. 

We only raised spring and fall this year for fowl, you can’t successfully raise without issues and or planning for it in the heat and even with trees and pasture and more, I know a number of local folks that pasture/free raise that had summer heat loss. They will learn, either move the raising times or buy more babies and budget in the heat deaths on the bottom lines.

the small car is still the best choice for gas, and it is a lovely tiny hatchback and can be used for a number of things when packed right.  We had the old car hauled away for scrape and so the farm is going into winter and the coming years with two new or newer vehicles.  Both are in many ways bare bones in terms of fancy stuff and that suits us just fine, less issues to break ideally. 

As the local dealerships are starting to fill in the back orders, we have also seen a crazy rash of vehicle thefts to the point that they are recommending that you put your cheaper or less likely to be taken vehicle to block in the new ones, clean out your garage and put your vehicle in it, local your gates and so on.  So far, our little truck is not on the published most wanted list thankfully.

We will see how it does on its first winter and coming year. So far so good.  I will admit that I am glad that we should be set for a good while now as I feel that the coming years will not be a good time to find a good deal on a second hand locally or at the dealerships.

 

 

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Narragansett Turkeys

Posted on November 28, 2022 by Just another day on the farm

Whistle Hen is a staple here on the farm, She is a delightful bird, sweet, never moments worry about her around us or visitors. Even in breeding season she is just more friendly, coming to sit at our feet and get petted. The only time she is peeky is when she is sitting on a nest or raising very young ones. Even then when given a choice, she will always choose passive moving away to give space.

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Her mate was just as a good tempered and when we lost him, we just kept her as a single turkey, I mean as the free-range flock, she just joined in with the chickens. She raised me Clutch after Clutch of self-hatched Turkey Pullets and much to my surprise, she hatches and raises chicken chicks very successfully.  Its funny as all get out to watch her three- or four-year-old chicken hens tuck themselves under her big wings in the depth of winter.

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This past week on my facebook memories, it came up that we had gotten the Breeding set 7 years ago and they were 3 years old and proven breeders when I bought them. That makes her 10 years old right now and 11 years in early spring of 2023. She is still laying eggs, still sitting her clutch and still raising  chicks. She has actively free ranged during the day with put up at night for years with no extra help in staying alive when it comes to the odd Fox, Coon, Fisher, Coywolf or Bald Eagle.

Reading up on the breed, they say that they can reach the age of 14. Perhaps Whistle will reach that milestone and go even longer. I have put the word out that I am looking for a new tom and a new hen or some pullets in the spring. I think it might be a very good idea indeed to see if there is any chance at all that she still has viable eggs and to get her genes into future generations for both myself and for other small farmers. 

What is the oldest Heritage Turkey on your small holding or farm? I have successsfully hatched healthy chicks from 8 or 9 year old chicken hens and so fingers crossed that I can get viable eggs in the spring from her, if not at least she can be counted on to raised them.

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Laszlo and Littlebit Introducing!

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Just another day on the farm

Life moves daily if not written about on the blog. This summer we sadly lost Faith, it was sudden, and it was so sad, she was just 8-year-old and that is not nearly long enough, she is greatly missed, I have a huge watercolor painting of her done. She is missed every single day.  Henry cat was going downhill, showing his age in many ways and it was not a surprise that he did not wake up on morning.

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It was not so much planned as it just happened that two siblings needed a soft landing and they have joined our farm. They will need to be indoor kittens for the winter and get their vet care and altering but in the grand plan of things our farm cat’s numbers have stayed the same.  I have had long hair farm cats and I made sure they were short hair because honestly, it’s a lot of work to keep a long hair cat in good shape on the farm, they are forever getting things stuck in their fur.

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Laszlo is the male kitten with more black on his nose and upper face, a stocky build and a very calm steady quiet thinking type. He is in many ways like my husband lol

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Littlebit is bold, always the first out, the first into things but also fast to react, wary in some ways, totally fearless in others, game to try new things and when she gives it, she goes!  She reminds me of me in many ways. 

They are full on go when they are awake and then crash and sleep, it’s a good thing they have each other to play with but even though they were raised in a chicken coop they were very well handled by the children of the farm they were born to and so they come running when you go in their room to greet you.  It takes a bit of time to adjust and get everyone settled in. 

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