Well, it looks like the weather has finally turned. Winter is (if merely writing these words) headed out the door …
Tag: Fail
Evolution of a chicken feeder
We’ve been searching for a good chicken feeder solution while the chickens are out on pasture. Sure, we’ve been using …
Broilers: Scaling, Efficiency and Other Excuses
I wanted to believe that Joel Salatin’s chicken-raising method would work for us. We started out with some pens we …
Mega-waterer v2.0 cold weather update
We’ve been through a good old-fashioned Minnesota cold snap in the past week and a slight problem arose with the …
’15 Turkeys
After the great turkey massacre of 2013 we were unenthusiastic about delving back into turkeys. We were busy enough with …
Piglet gone wrong
Warning, this blog post is about a necropsy of a deceased piglet, which includes pictures. If this sort of thing …
Replacement Gilt Blues
I decided to keep a few replacement gilts (young lady pigs) this spring. I sorted out two of the best …
The Great Farrowing Disaster of 2014
So about two weeks ago we had three pigs lined up to farrow their first litters. Hooray! Until we realized …
The Turkeys: 2013
The turkeys were the one unequivocal flop on the farm this year. Not everything can be a rousing success the …
Thanks for the Turkey
The water in the scalder was heating up. The water was on, the plucker was ready, the knives, bags and …