Want A Challenge? Try Hatching Goose Eggs!
I am by no means skilled at incubating eggs, but I've had pretty decent results with chicken, turkey and guinea eggs. Using a styrofoam incubator with fan and automatic egg…
Why Do We Raise Our Own Pork?
I noticed that pork in the grocery store had been getting leaner and less tender over the decades since I was a kid. I had grown up with pork and…
A bittersweet day
It's been a bittersweet day. The bitter; this morning, we loaded Chichi, Ginger and Barrow into the trailer and took them to the processor. I know that this is what…
Uh oh… the power is out!!!
What do you do when you have two incubators with eggs, a brooder full of chicks, and the power goes out? Well, we found ourselves figuring THAT one out yesterday…
Honey Bee Crisis
The US beekeeping community has been facing alarming losses of colonies since Summer 2024. Surveys indicate that over 60%... yes, over SIXTY PERCENT of the commercial bee population is gone,…