The weather has dramatically begun to turn into fall over the past couple of days and with the busy work schedule, I realized I have not posted for awhile. This is a quick review of farm activities over the past couple of weeks leading up to our last few days of warm weather. COOKBOOK: MyContinue reading “A Really Long Farm Update Before Fall.”
Category Archives: Bantam
Walking goats & state fair countdown.
Dustin continually let’s me know that over the past couple of months we have created spoiled goats, which I wouldn’t disagree with. The goats are pretty quiet until around 6 pm. They know that is when we head home from school and work and they expect to get some attention. They usually stand at theContinue reading “Walking goats & state fair countdown.”
Barn Happiness
Things always seem to come back to perspective when you spend some time back in the barn. We have lots of little highlights that have been happening lately. Here are a few: [Uploading gallery…] The baby chick’s are as big as the rest of the hens. Ringo has plenty of action. Bob attacks Ringo ifContinue reading “Barn Happiness”
Barn Update
It’s been awhile since I’ve written a post life sure gets busy during the summer. The chickens are enjoying the nice summer days with warm days and summer storms that night. I was out of town last weekend and right before we left we had a pretty huge summer storm. Pretty high winds came throughContinue reading “Barn Update”
Goat Show Day
We were able to have all 3 goats trimmed and we were off and running by 7:30 am for the youth goat show. One of the benefits of Nigerians is we were able to get all our supplies, family of 4, and 3 goats into a Pilot. The drive was about an hour drive toContinue reading “Goat Show Day”
Part two
On the chicken side there have been some new updates: * Lahaina is still broody so no eggs 😔 * The larger chickens have been terrorizing the younger silkies so I needed to get rid of them. Unfortunately, I believe that is how I lost the tan one earlier this week. * One of myContinue reading “Part two”
Two New Additions
We had two new additions to close out the weekend: a few more chicks- you just can’t ever have too many chicks a vegetable garden Now, I have come to a good place around how many chickens is too many chickens. According to my husband that special number is 25, which I will agree isContinue reading “Two New Additions”