We had the outstanding pleasure of meeting a very wonderful family up in Guthrie, OK. The Fleshman Family. You can see a lot about the Fleshman’s at their website Grace Family Farm. The great news is that they have 3 doelings freshly weened. We were also extremely lucky that they were willing to board them for […]
Clearing the Property and a New Road
We have 10 acres around our little homestead, but we’ve had a hard time getting it cleared and getting access to the entire place. We fixed it this weekend. We completely brush hogged the entire property, we left all the trees and any saplings. And we also have a ravine in the back that cuts […]
Happy Chickens
We had the opportunity to continue finishing up the Chicken Coop. We still aren’t completely finished but we have one door cut so on nice days they can come out. There is one problem: They don’t want to come out. HAHA. Ashley says that the reason they don’t want to come out is because the […]
Adding a Carport
On our little homestead we have this really great barn and we are slowly adding lots of equipment that we need to take care of our growing farm. The problem I’m having right now is that our barn is filled up with a tractor, lawn mower, and just generally packed in there. Initially the roof […]
A new Golf Cart
So over the last few months we keep adding more and more around our homestead. We have aquaponics over there, a barn over here, chickens and goats going down there. I even set up a deer feeder on the very back of the property for bringing in some deer for hunting season. I’ve discovered that […]
Moving The Chicken Coop
As you may know from my previous article: Can’t Fight the Clipboard I had to move the chicken coop because I built it too close to the diesel pipeline that I just found out rolls through the back of our property. The joys of homesteading. There is always a surprise around the corner. Moving the chicken […]
Can’t fight the clipboard
Well I was sitting at home one day and I heard my driveway alarm suddenly go off. I get up and take a look of course. And I see a white truck driving past the house and into the back of the property. This is a concern of course. Who is just making themselves at […]
The hassle of chicken water
Chickens tend to be typical bird brains. They just don’t understand that they need water to survive and that it tastes much better when it’s clean. So when I set up the standard chicken watering devices, the chickens stand on the edges, they go to the bathroom in it. They scratch around close to it. […]
Coop update
I’ve been building my Chicken Coop (or should I say chicken palace) every weekend for over a month now. I think I definitely decided on a coop that was much bigger and elaborate than I needed. However, the chickens are going to be the most comfortable chickens in Oklahoma, HAHA. The pictures are below, I’ve […]
Aquaponics update
It’s been several weeks now. The Aquaponics has been doing well based on Murray Hallam’s method and using IBC Totes. You can see some of the leaves are seeing some punishment. I let my PH get a little out of hand. For some reason it keeps drifting higher and higher. Need to track down the […]