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Posted on January 17, 2019
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It’s been a while. How are you? Sorry we haven’t posted lately, but sometimes life gets a little busy with kids, jobs, side jobs, side-side jobs, and side-farm jobs. Since our last blog post we have pretty much finished up all of our major… Continue Reading “Pastured Poultry Update”
Category: Farm Life, FeaturedTags: Chicken coop, chickens, Cornish cross, farm blog, Farm Life, farming, hoop coop, learning as we grow, pasture raised, poultry, poultry farm, raising turkeys, small farm, small scale farming, Small-scale Farm, turkey, turkeys
Posted on September 4, 2018
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We have entered a lovely time of the year now when our Spring-born pullets have started laying like crazy! Ideally we would have started our chicks in the Fall, so they would begin laying in the Spring, but our plans were derailed by the… Continue Reading “Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!”
Category: Farm LifeTags: chicken eggs, chickens, Eggs, eggs for sale, eggs in lawrence ks, farm fresh eggs, laying hens, organic, pasture raised, pastured, poultry, poultry farm, Small-scale Farm
Posted on June 27, 2018
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Sometimes in life you get something that makes you wonder how you managed to function before you go it. That’s pretty much how we feel about our Great Pyrenees pups, Bo and Lou. Pyrenees have been on our radar for a long time, but… Continue Reading “Pupdate”
Category: Farm Life, FeaturedTags: canine, chicken dogs, chicken protectors, dog, Eggs, Farm, learning as we grow, LGD, Livestock Guardian, Livestock guardian dogs, poultry, puppies, raising dogs, training
Posted on June 12, 2018
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Coming into this farming season, we decided to ramp up our enterprises a bit to trial run some ventures we thought we’d like to add to the farm. The no-brainer first addition was the pastured broilers. Since we have raised egg layers and culled… Continue Reading “Turkey Talk”
Category: Farm LifeTags: country, curious, failure to thrive, Farm, Farm Life, food, funny turkeys, high protein feed, homestead, kansas, learning as we grow, locally sourced food, meat birds, new, organic, poultry, poults, raising organic, raising turkeys, raising your food, small farm, stargazing poults, turkey, turkeys
Posted on May 16, 2018
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As we’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, this year is the first time we’ve decided to trial Cornish Cross chickens to see how they perform as prospective meat birds on our farm. Well, we just got our inaugural batch back from the processor last… Continue Reading “Our Cornish Cross Results”
Category: Farm Life, RecipesTags: chicken, Cornish cross, cornish cross chicken, Farm, farming, heritage breed chicken, homesteading, learning as we grow, muscovy, Muscovy duck, poultry, processing chicken, raising chickens, roasted chicken, Small-scale Farm, trial
Posted on April 24, 2018
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It finally feels like we’re turning the corner into Spring! Now that the weather is nice, everything seems to be moving at the speed of light. We have so many tasks on our farm to-do list that it doesn’t feel like we’re ever going… Continue Reading “Our Newest $300 Chicken Coop”
Category: Farm Life, How-TosTags: $300, budget farming, cattle panels, cheap, Chicken coop, chickens, coop, creative, Farm, hoop coop, how to build, how-to, laying hens, learning as we grow, on a dime, pallets, poultry, saving money farming
Posted on April 17, 2018
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Well, here in Kansas it seems we have set off some sort of eternal winter. We have had snow (albeit not much) the last three weekends….of April! Nonetheless, we have been moving forward with our plans here on the farm, even if Spring refuses… Continue Reading “April Farm Update”
Category: Farm LifeTags: asparagus, Chicken coop, chickens, cold, coop, Cornish cross, dogs, Farm, farm update, farming on a budget, Great Pyrenees, kids, LGD, new coop, pallets, poultry, puppies, small scale, small scale farming, Spring
Posted on April 12, 2018
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There are a lot of contentious issues in the food/agriculture world: GMO vs. Non-GMO, Organic vs. Conventional, Grass-fed/finished vs. Grain Finished, and on and on and on. Perhaps the most misunderstood of these issues, however, is the Cornish Cross chicken. If you’ve ever watched… Continue Reading “Raising Cornish Cross Chickens”
Category: Farm LifeTags: broilers, chicken, chickens, Cornish cross, Farm, farming, learning as we grow, learning to farm, pasture raised, poultry, raising your food
Posted on March 19, 2018
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At the time of writing this, a heavy coat of ice has our woods hunched over and groaning like they would rather do anything but stay upright. I can relate with every passing year. Looking out the window it’s hard to fathom that we… Continue Reading “Incubating Chicken Eggs”
Category: Farm LifeTags: adorable, animals, baby animals, baby chickens, Baby Chicks, chickens, chicks, classroom, classroom chickens, cute, Farm, farming, hatching chickens, hatchlings, incubating chickens, incubator, kids, learning, learning as we grow, poultry, small farm
Posted on March 5, 2018
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So far in this blog we’ve talked about a few of the things that we have been doing leading up to this farming endeavor. We’ve spent some time playing around with our chicken infrastructure, gardened without great intention, and thrown in some bees and… Continue Reading “The Farm Plan”
Category: Farm LifeTags: bees, cattle, chickens, cows, dogs, ducks, family, family farm, farm plan, farming, pigs, poultry, sheep, Small-scale Farm, turkeys, Veggies