Finally a weekend with no rain!

It’s been a while since I could really get out and do some yard work!
The Beets are still cranking out, the potato forest is LUSH, and all 40 varieties of heirloom tomato are looking great! We harvested 60 bulbs of fresh garlic today, and I am about to start picking some peppers.
Here are some potato [...]

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Don’t mess with “MAMA”

I am sure a lot of you read the title and assumed this was about my wife
This is a quick (but bad quality) video showing our Maran hen protecting her ten baby guineas. She thinks they are her chicks and she protects them with a fury that sends any nearby threat running for [...]

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I love my rooster!

I have written about him before, but he is just so cool! He is the stereotype of cool roosters (just look at our banner above). He crows REALLY loud, he looks like a rooster should look, and he takes great care of the ladies! Most roosters become so mean that a lot of people won’t [...]

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Me and My Girl

Last Friday evening, Emma and I went on her first Girl Scouts outing. I took her to see “Walking With Dinosaurs” and it was one of the best times we have ever had together. It was just me and her, heading into the “big city” as Emma calls it, and having fun together. [...]

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I thought this was supposed to be difficult.

If you were to go online and read about incubating poultry eggs you would get the impression that the slightest fluctuation in temperature would result in a catastrophic loss of life that your flock may never recover from! We just must be lucky. We have had eggs rolling around in the van, in pockets, in [...]

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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther

I tell ya what…. I was a whole lot thinner when my wife couldn’t cook!
Sometime around 6 am on Monday I begin looking forward to breakfast on Sunday. We always get up early, get going on chores then get back in the house so Kim can start breakfast. For those of you that rush a [...]

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Trouble in Paradise

It would be foolish of me to think we could free range our chickens and never suffer any losses. This past week we have been dealing with the stereotypical scourge of the chicken farmer…. The dreaded Red Fox!

Not THAT Red Fox….
This one.

We have lost about 5 hens in the past 10 days or so, and [...]

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