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13 Mile Farm Tour
Our Tour Smell Free is possible!Farm Classes every Thursday MorningJoAnn and I signed up and attended a two part class at Hawaiian Sanctuary "Starting a Poultry Flock" by Chris Hardenbrook, Owner of...
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Whats happening here
Something other than Chickens What do you mean,"other than chickens?" Yeah, there is life other than chickens at our little one acre farm. Today, JoAnn and I got the log moving system perfected. Let...
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The Chicks have Hatched!
Our Second Brood We recently purchased a commercial version of a home incubator. A fancy way of saying a nice styrofoam box to hatch out chickens. We picked this up our local Del's Tractor Supply (no...
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Some Weeks Are Just....
Bad News Personal choices can have a far reaching effect on people that we just cannot comprehend. While the following information would be best discussed in a different forum, this very personal news...
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PINEAPPLES
The Pineapple Bed is inStart from a store bought pineapple I went for mulch yesterday and decided instead of putting it in the new chicken pen area (yes, I know that mulching the expansion should be...
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Chocolate Grows on Trees? Sign me up!
Are there really such things? Yes, Virginia. Chocolate grows on trees. Willy Wonka's ultimate dream! Rows of trees with bars hanging low for easy picking. 10-12 bars on each branch, 200 or more on...
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Teenagers started laying
Our "Teens" started layingThe eggs are a bit on the small side for one of them. We got 15 eggs today, including the Peewee egg. We are ramping up our bid for food independence by raising our own...
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Feeding Chickens on the Cheep!
Use Sprouted Grains How much can I expect it to save me? Wow, that is a good question. In my last post I outlined what I was spending on the chickens to "save" money and I realized I needed to bring...
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Grain Sprouting Update
New and Improved Seed Station Or, protecting and taking the stink out of the seeds. My last post was about the idea of sprouting seeds for our chickens gastronomical pleasure.Since then, I have run...
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Back at it! Almost a year off, but time to get back into things happening here on our little farmlet. The changes: Chickens: We have lost a few chickens, but added a few turkeys, 40 or so chickens...
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Progress on the Big Pen! The Ideal: As mentioned in the last post, we are building a large (for us) pen to house both the chickens and the turkeys. We will be separating the flock by type, and by...
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Well, it's been over a year since the last post and I am surprised that the blog hasn't been shut down. But since it hasn't, I'll start with some news.In that time frame, the world has gone nuts about...
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Prepping This is the first post after the news of the Covid 19 "pandemic" and it's associated panic got me to reflect on the precarious nature of the Islands JoAnn I call home. an Island is defined as...
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Can Closet UpdateAs promised, the Can Closet project is moving along nicely and it's time for an update. Here is the wall we selected for the project. it is just off the Kitchen, and a short open wall...
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Big News on the FarmToday is goat baby day! We are heading out at lunch tiime to pick up our newest additions to the farm, Coco and Vanna, twin sister goats that are going to be the Matriarchs and the...
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Settling inCoco and Vanna are selttling in nicely, though they do cry still right about dark. They are in a 10x10 converted kennel for now, while I finish the property fencing. I have done three of...
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Cross FencingSo far, the most we have gotten done on Cross fencing the property is to get a rough idea on where the fence is going to go. I have the materials, but will need to jackhammer the post...
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What's up? Welcome to the state of Confusion
Mrs. Sheep is on Lamb watch; or not.I have raised sheep before, but never for lambing, only market animals so I have not been exposed to the idiosyncrasies of sheep labor. I am however, confident that...
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Lamb or no lamb what's up Mrs. Sheep?
What's Up?Well, its been a few days and we have had a couple of odd ones. We are running out of time for this pregnancy to actually be a pregnancy. Goats gestational period is 145 days, give or take...
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What's NewA month has gone by and of course by now you know that had Mrs. Sheep delivered a live or dead lamb, I would have been eagerly posting the news. Well, her due date has come and is long gone...
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Sheep or Goat FeederWe do more than Chickens here and this project is all about our goats and sheep. This build takes basic woodworking and basic metalworking skills. If you know how to weld and use a...
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Feeder ResultsThe girls are using the feeder well, of course the goats are wanting to climb into it. Sheep have no such inclination. As long as they can eat, they are happy munching outside the...
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Processing Day and More Sheep! Today is December 23 so todays post is a few days old, well, not quite a week since we processed the chickens out of the flock. We also have more sheep but more on that...
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Big news!
Big news!Our very first mammal birth on the farm happened early this morning. Our very own flock has been expanded by a count of one. We had a ram lamb born this morning sometime early because by the...
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More Cute! Photo heavy...
The Cute continues. As promised, our flock has doubled in one shot. We responded to a post on Facebook regarding a mini flock for sale and snatched it up. The awesome people that run Kapanaia Farms in...
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