So it has been quite some time since my last update on our meat bird experiment. I figured maybe a quick recap of what we were trying to do was in order. We brought home a bunch of Cornish Cross chicks in the spring. We wanted to raise them as meat birds but do it…
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….
I wrote this last year but wasn’t ready to hit publish… until now. Leaving certain ways of thinking, living, and doing behind since moving off-grid has in many ways freed me from constraints I never knew I had and blind spots I simply could not see. It’s easier to see the messed up when you’re…
