Hethya 120 Egg Incubator Check Price on Amazon Our first egg incubator seemed to fall short of useful. It seemed first that it needed to have air moving around it to keep eggs in the middle from getting too hot while those on the edges were not warm enough. Humidity was never what it needed…
https://youtu.be/nCwcv5AngOE This past few months we have been working on clearing about 5 acres of mostly eastern red cedar from our property. Clearing out lots of fallen trees, limbs and brush plus the cedar will be a big benefit in reducing the fire hazard and cutting down the cedars, the poor quality hardwoods and even…
Building a solar farm on the homestead Winter of 2021 going into 2022 brought some of the usual winter weather issues, cold, snow, ice, freezing rain and sleet, along with some sunshine. The previous year brought freezing rain as well, with most of it going south of us. Problem with freezing rain is that it…
Milling some cedar We have been clearing some trees from the orchard area and also some from east of the house where we are converting some woods area into some silvopasture. The orchard area had a variety of hardwoods, oak, hickory, black walnut, wild cherry and some pine and cedar. We have been cutting those…
From mid August 2020 through the end of 2021, the homestead has been in something of a tizzy. While the virus pandemic has been the major focus for much of the world, not so much here. Kris became ill with what turned out to be a spinal infection which required surgery to clear. While the…
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We added a couple new fruit trees to the homestead 2020 This year is the first I can remember that the purple plum we planted has set on a full bloom. The peach trees also have had a very good bloom, and the apple trees which have started to bloom and lost to freezing weather…
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Building an Automated Chicken Coop Door [In December, we added some more turkeys to the flock, so now 5 turkeys. They were kept in the hoop coop for a while, primarily to keep the rest of the flock out of the higher protein feed the turkeys were getting. Once released into the flock, they did…