Farming

Chicken Tractor

April 17, 2006

In order to help clean up the garden, I built this chicken tractor to move about the place. It’s a little heavy, but slides over the grass smoothly. I may fit some wheels on at some point. So far, the 10 lucky chicks have been moved 4 times in 8 days and don’t seem to [...]

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Bokashi

February 20, 2006

Using Bokashi and a bucket fermenter is an excellent way to speed up the composting process while giving your garden improved health and vigor.

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Chick Update

February 20, 2006

  The chicks are growing by leaps and bounds. The Cornish Roasters have doubled in size and already weigh a pound. The laying hens and specialty breeds have also doubled in size but are still around 5 ounces. This weeks cold weather, however, took its toll and we lost another Buff Orpington chick. All the [...]

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Land Reclimation Experiment

February 12, 2006

Years ago, our current brooding house was a chicken house proper. We had around 50 laying hens and a large yard outside. Meanwhile we used the smaller chicken house as a brooding house, and to house chickens we were raising for meat. There was a problem with the yard to the large house, however, in [...]

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Spring so soon?

February 9, 2006

Our baby chicks have arrived! Well, actually we got them on Monday and it has been a chore keeping them warm in the cold snap were having at the moment. . . . We got 66 chicks–25 Cornish Cross meat bird, 25 Buff Orpington laying hens, and several specialty breeds including Dorkings–one of the oldest [...]

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National Animal Identification System

January 12, 2006

I’m not going to write much about this here, because cause you can read what I’ve written here. But if you eat meat, raise animals, have pets, it is in your best interest to inform yourself about the NAIS plan and act. As it stands now, this is a costly system which benefits no one [...]

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