A while back we adapted our rabbit tractors for winter use. Read about those changes here and here. Elevating the tractors increased the occurence of what had previously been a minor issue: the rabbits flipping their feed dishes and spilling all the feed. When that happened and the tractors were on the ground, it was […]
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Rabbit Tractor Updates: Feeder Addition
Posted in Rabbits, tagged feed, feeder, kits, meat, rabbit meat, Rabbits, winter on January 9, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbit Colony Free Feeder
Posted in Rabbits, tagged feed, feeder, homestead, meat, rabbit meat, Rabbits on December 22, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
This fall we’re experimenting with a rabbit colony setup. This experiment is ongoing, so we cannot yet say whether or not it’s successful. One nice characteristic of the colony, though, is that we can quickly feed and water several rabbits at the same time. To feed the rabbits, we made a rabbit feeder comparable to […]
New Poultry Feeder Setup, Great for Chickens and Ducks!
Posted in Chickens, Ducks, Farm, Layers, Meat Chickens, Uncategorized, tagged chicken, chickens, ducks, eggs, feed, feeder on August 4, 2016 | 1 Comment »
With so many animals and only two farmers, we are constantly looking for ways to be more efficient with our farm tasks. Efficiencies in daily tasks such as feeding and watering pay huge dividends. A customer recently shared a poultry feeder design that we’ve implemented with great success! Here are a couple links (Link 1, […]
Chickens and Ducks
Posted in Chickens, Ducks, tagged chickens, ducks, feed on March 26, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I feel like we have quite the barnyard going on. When we had the ducks living in with the chickens, it was one of those times. This video captures the energy of a bunch of fowl at feeding time. Enjoy watching the antics of the animals! We have since moved the ducks out to their […]
Raising Ducks 101
Posted in Ducks, tagged ducks, eggs, feed, food, garden on March 26, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a quick post addressing some of the questions I get most frequently when we sell ducklings. Most questions apply to anyone who’s considering raising ducks, with some specific to the scenario of buying ducklings from us. For more information, I’d recommend checking out all our duck blog posts. Housing Ducklings Ducklings should be housed […]
Friday on the Farm- 2/20/15
Posted in Ducks, Friday on the Farm, Goats, Hogs, tagged cold weather, ducks, feed, fodder, goats, hens, hogs on February 20, 2015 | 1 Comment »
It’s been another chilly week here on the farm! While it feels like spring may never come, I remind myself that this cold weather means less pests will survive winter and be around to cause trouble in spring and summer. More Goats! This past week we added two more goats to the homestead! First I picked […]
Feeding Fodder
Posted in Garden, Hogs, Layers, Rabbits, tagged american guinea hog, chickens, eggs, feed, fodder, hens, hogs, homestead, Rabbits on January 3, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
For about a month now we’ve been experimenting with a fodder system for feed. It’s still in the experimentation phase, but I thought I’d share our results so far. After some research, we decided to play around with growing barley fodder. It could lower our feed costs, plus we really like the idea of having […]
Feeding Chickens: Our Experience so Far
Posted in Layers, Meat Chickens, tagged chickens, eggs, feed, feeder, hens, homestead, pvc on July 14, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
We started our first chicks with the typical feed setup: dry conventional feed in a basic plastic chick feeder. Within weeks, though, we knew the basic setup wasn’t ideal. We quickly switched to organic feed, and currently get our feed from Countryside Organics. In the near future we plan on making our own custom feed […]
Chick Grit
Posted in Chickens, tagged box, brooder, carrots, chickens, chicks, feed, feeder, food, grit, perch, roost, scraps, weeds on April 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our chicks are now approximately five and three weeks old (if you recall we have two varieties: Araucanas and Golden Comets). We recently made another trip to the local feed store to get some more chick food. The twenty-five pound bag we purchased when we bought the chicks is almost all gone already, so we purchased another three twenty-five pound bags of non-medicated chick food. This should last them until they are ready to go outside and eat “layer” feed.
Take Me Home Tonight- Getting Our Chicks
Posted in Chickens, tagged Araucanas, box, chickens, chicks, feed, golden comet, southern states, tractor supply on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Once we decided that we were going to have laying hens for eggs, we had to get them. We had to wait until after our Spring Break trip to get the chicks as we didn’t want to find a sitter to care for them for a week. When we returned, we called around to the […]
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