We moved to this bare acreage nearly seven years ago with not much more than a head full of homesteading books and a dream. Neither of us had ever built a house, used solar power, kept animals, or built homestead infrastructure by hand. We still feel like greenhorns in so many ways and this video…
I actually had to go back and look at the date of my last post to see how old these birds are. It turns out it’s been just about a month since our last update and things have definitely changed. The first major change is that we got netting up over the whole chicken run….
The last couple of weeks on the homestead have held some loss. That is sort of the way of things when you are trying to grow living plants and animals but still, it can often be a sharp reminder of the fragility of it all. The loss we incurred with the meat birds really wasn’t…
So the big news, since last week, is that we moved the birds out to their pasture run. First, Stewart put together what seems to be a fairly predator-proof house made from free pallets, inexpensive Craigslist tin, and a window that lets them out of their house in the morning. The part off the run…
