I talked about deep bedding very briefly in an earlier post, Temporary Barn Idea. For this post, I’m going to go into more detail about it. Deep bedding is, simply put, the continual addition of new bedding on top of old, soiled […]
Meet Bugsy. Aptly named because she bugs me. And she’s in heat… Because we are planning on a lot of projects for the coming spring and summer, we decided not to breed all of our goats. That, unfortunately, means that we are […]
Well, it snowed! That is supposed to be our road. Overall, we got close to sixteen inches. 16! The question, then, becomes: What is the best way to bring hay to the animals? My husband has his method that works in deep […]
With winter setting in, I want to showcase this hoophouse. The design was an idea inspired from The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Growers Handbook. We bought a hoop bender from Johnny Select Seeds to shape the metal pipes and criss-crossed rope along the […]
Our black and white, blue-eyed buck. His full name is Harry Potter because, you guessed it, he has a white mark on his forehead that resembles a lightning bolt. He’s given us some pretty amazing babies!
That is a frog climbing up my kitchen window… And it isn’t the first one. Fun fact of living on a farm: You WILL have animals of all kinds visit, climb, burrow, and chill-ax in and around your house. We’ve seen […]
We’d been waiting for this moment. Now, our daughter was old enough and we were finally ready to get a dog. I grew up with a family dog. You can see a picture of her on my Diabolical Baby Brigade blog […]
When we first moved to the farm, there was only a small pole barn. At 30 foot by 40 foot and with a cement floor, we decided to use half of it for hay storage and placed large, rubber mats on […]
Like two peas in a pod Meet Rosemary Chicken, aptly named because I first caught her laying eggs between two rosemary plants, and Kitty, aptly named because he’s a kitty. Rosemary Chicken likes to jump the chicken’s netting and come to the […]
Comfy privacy These old cat litter boxes have been so wonderful as nesting boxes! They’re durable, movable, and lightweight. In all honesty, when we first built our mobile chicken tractor, we could not figure out an easy way to factor in the […]