Posts Tagged ‘rain’

Piglets Part 4: Feeding & Watering Growing Pigs

Posted in Hogs, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on August 15, 2016 | Leave a Comment »

Today we continue our piglets series with some insights on feeding and watering growing pigs. Pigs grow so fast that any missteps in feeding and watering can have dramatic consequences. Too little feed can permanently damage a pig, while too much can lead to plenty of issues, too. That being the case, there’s a lot […]

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Fermented Chicken Feed Update

Posted in Chickens, tagged , , , , , , on November 21, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

You may have read a previous post where we mention that in the spring we fermented our chicken feed. We stopped doing this over summer because wetness breeds fly problems. Around the end of August the fly population dropped and we began fermenting chicken feed again. Here’s a quick summary of why and how we do […]

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Free Flushes And More!

Posted in Water, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

April showers have finally arrived and our rain barrels are already both at capacity. It has not even rained that much but between the two barrels they collect over half the rain that falls on our roof, and that adds up to enough collected water to fill up our two barrels. Seeing all this rain water leave our barrels made me realize that it was time we started utilizing this water more effectively.

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Rain Barrels Part 2

Posted in Water, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Martha did a fantastic job prepping our rain barrels. Now it is time for me to install them! We decided that our first two rain barrels would reside in our back yard as we had a bit of trouble with water flowing from the existing down spouts from the roof into our lawn and washing […]

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Rain Barrels Part 1

Posted in Water, tagged , , , , , , on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Early on we decided that rain barrels would be a great addition to our homestead.  Our yard is on a slope, and when it rained the water flow over part of the yard would be too much.  Grass wouldn’t grow well in that area, and the ground would get really muddy.  Part of the water […]

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