Tag: Small-scale Farm
Posted on March 6, 2019
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Our farm is currently not too terribly taxing when it comes to the amount of labor we have to invest to keep it running on a daily basis. During winter we don’t have any meat chickens out on pasture because there is no real… Continue Reading “A Break From the Farm”
Category: Farm LifeTags: Chicken coop, chickens, Farm, farm fresh eggs, Farm Life, Great Pyrenees, laying hens, learning as we grow, LGD, pasture raised, small scale farming, Small-scale Farm, vacation, vacation from the farm, vacay, winter, winter on the farm
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 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 2, 2018
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We posted a blog post last week that details how we’ve managed our chick brooders in the past and what we’re doing this year, but we just wanted to give you a quick run-down of what we think are brooder essentials. These are all… Continue Reading “7 Essentials for Chick Starting (brooding)”
Category: Farm Life, How-TosTags: Baby Chicks, brooding, chick starting essentials, chicken brooding, chicken farming, essentials, Farm, farming from scratch, how-to, learning to farm, learning to grow, necessities, new chicks, poultry farm, small scale farming, Small-scale 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
Posted on February 26, 2018
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There’s no “right” way to build a chicken coop, but there are plenty of wrong ways. Trust us. When we first seriously considered getting chickens we had read a ton of reference material from the likes of Joel Salatin, Harvey Ussery, and Glenn Drowns.… Continue Reading “Choosing a Coop Design for your Farm”
Category: Farm Life, How-TosTags: a-frame coop, Building a chicken coops, Chicken coop, chicken tractor, chickens, coop designs, Eggs, Farm, farming, farming adventures, homestead, homesteading, hoop coop, LGD, poultry, Small-scale Farm
Posted on January 29, 2018
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As Shannon mentioned in our inaugural blog post, we are now the proud parents of two Great Pyrenees puppies. I want to talk a little bit about why we chose the dogs we did and what our plans are for them, but first, perhaps… Continue Reading “Why we decided to get Livestock Guardian Dogs.”