about chickens,kids, and house/bacyard porjects
Yesterday the weather wasn’t too bad. We decided to get some brushing in for the cows.
Cain did very well with his first brushing.
( my daughter video this )
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Cold windy day, but work doesn’t stop on our homestead! Working with Cain, he is getting the hang of the harness. We are so proud of him. We tried some carrots, but he wasn’t too crazy about those. He did like his apple treats.
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Mazikeen enjoying a break in the storm
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Mazikeen is looking so pretty. We had a wind storm come in. Those clouds were nice and dark but no rain or snow. Maybe later on in the week!
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It’s been a while since I wrote! We have been very busy getting our homestead set up!
We have gone from only having chickens, turkeys, and ducks.. to goats, pigs, alpacas, sheep, and our newest members, on our homestead, are highland cows!
Our heifer calf is six months old and about 300 to 400 pounds. We named her Dalila. She is very sweet.
Our other highland cow is our bull calf. He is four months old and about 200 – 250 pounds. We named him Cain.
A big thank you to Black Rock Homestead for helping me get the cows area set up. I couldn’t have done it without you guys! Cain will need to be worked with he’s a little ruff around the edges, I’m excited about this challenge.
Apollo is about 5 or 6 years of age. He likes to keep everyone in line.
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Harvest day!
Today is the day to harvest….. the artichokes!
They are small but I’m very excited. I have never gotten them this big.
What are you looking forward to harvesting this season?
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Today, I was cleaning out the turkeys. One of our hens likes to sit on the top and look down on me as I clean them out. Today, she decided for the first time that my ponytail looked like it would be fun to grab.
She did this about 2 times, but the 3rd time she was successful in ripping out my hair tie jumping off the roof. I chased after her around their run area I did in deed get the hair tie back.
My advice would be to watch your hair accessories and that turkeys can in deed run fast when they want to.
🤣😅🤣😅🤣
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It’s been a long week of yard work, and it’s only Wednesday 🤣.
We have gotten a lot done. Cleaning out the weeds from the front area where the pumpkins will be planted.
I know in the photo they don’t look long but they are. There was also dead sun flower stalks.
Wel also got the raised garden beds built and filled with soil. I added some worms to them but forgot to take a photo of them 🤣.
And got the fencing done around the garden area.
Now, to get the ground ready for planting and let the fun begin!
I got some cute little solar mushroom lights. 🍄
I planted flower bulbs around them. I can’t wait for those to come up.
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We had a little bit of snow today. Mostly rain, though. I took this time since everything is muddy to do some planting!
Chocolate cherry sunflowers
Mongolia giant sunflower
Emily basil
Cinderella pumpkin
Mint mountain
Spinach
Pepper ashe County pimento
Sweet corn
Lemon balm
Corn hopi pink
Brown sugar tomato
Tatsoi
I get my seeds from bakerscreek. The brown sugar tomato would be the one I’m most excited about. The other one I would be excited to try is the pepper ashe County pimento. I’m looking forward to trying to making pickled eggs with them.
Today, my daughter pulled one of the beets to give to the livestock, and it was the biggest one we have grown yet.
Tomorrow, the livestock will be very happy to get this big one.
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