01/20/2020 Are You Trying To Do Too Much? Are You Trying to Do Too Much? Homesteading is this sort of wonderful, addictive, meandering adventure. It all starts with a chicken. … Read More 197
10/21/2019 Peek Behind the Scenes (10-19) The Hard Part of Homesteading… (Premium) Death is a Part of the Homestead Even if you are a vegetarian who never plans to eat meat, and your animals' … Read More 213
07/31/2018 Raising Small Livestock – Great Animals for Smaller Homesteads (or those just starting) Great Animals for Smaller Homesteads When you first get started raising animals, smaller is probably better. You could start with a cow, … Read More 189
01/10/2018 5 Fence Options for Livestock (Premium) A Look at 5 Fence Options for Livestock. When it comes to keeping in livestock, there are many fence choices. Some of … Read More 186
02/20/2016 What You Need to Know About Keeping Ducks – QUACK! Spring is almost here. Baby poultry are showing up in farm stores everywhere. If you love chickens, you may love ducks too. … Read More 189
10/02/2015 Farm Chores – How Long do They Take? Farm Chores – How much time do they take? I homeschool my 4 children. I do lots of laundry. I cook lots … Read More 76
09/22/2015 Coop Training a Duck Can a Duck be coop trained? We keep our chickens the redneck way. Go here to learn how we do it. It’s … Read More 63
08/10/2015 The Effects of Round-up Runoff – Grrr 1 Dead Duck Warning: This post includes pictures of a dead duck. If you don’t like dead ducks, you should probably stop … Read More 76
04/28/2015 We Didn’t Eat The Duck…… It’s been a while since I sent out an update on Ping. Since, I know, you are all dying to know how … Read More 51
04/03/2015 Ping Gets a Pool A duck pool. Before we get started admiring Ping and his new Pool……… Can we all take a moment to enjoy my … Read More 42
03/23/2015 There’s a Duck in My Sink………. Again There’s a Duck in my sink……. Again. Ping had his first swim a couple of weeks ago………. in my sink. He was … Read More 43
03/22/2015 The Duck Files – Ping is Growing Up You can hardly recognize my little guy. He’s just getting so HUGE! Here he was just a few short weeks ago…….. on … Read More 44
03/17/2015 There’s A Duck In My Barn It is with great sadness and heartfelt compassion I tell you that Ping has moved out. They just grow up so darn … Read More 46
03/10/2015 There’s a Duck in My Sink There’s a Duck in my sink. The baby chicks have learned how to fly. They are flying to the top of the … Read More 42
03/03/2015 There’s A Duck On My Couch There is a duck in my house. It may seem odd that we have a duck running loose in our home. When … Read More 46