Category: backyarding with kids and every day house projects

Our Broad Breasted White turkeys  hens are getting big! They  love hanging around us. 😍

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We are to have another storm where I live. They are saying 3 to 6 inches of snow. I could care less about the snow. Every homesteader knows about getting work done in the snow. For me, it’s the wind storms. I can’t get work done in wind storms.

Everyone is always asking how to keep their runs for their girls/ guys ( chickens hens / roosters) to not move/flip during a wind storm. I love the idea of using cinder blocks on the outside of the runs. Planting herbs in the cinder blocks. I have this project for my homestead for during the spring or summer. Until then, though, I use
Eurmax USA U-Shaped-Rebar-Stakes-12-Inch, Ground Stakes Heavy Duty.

I put two on each side of my longer runs and one on each side of my shorter runs.

The girls/ guys didn’t care about me adding the stakes. The turkeys did, and they tried to help.

This is Monica.

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While most wait until after the frost date to start planting, there are a huge amount of us who plant now!

I was excited to see my Pink Dandelion starting to srpout!

This is my first year growing these ones. I can’t wait to make jam, tea, and, of course, getting seeds to plant more of them. 7 to 21 days for germination. 60 to 95 days until it blooms. I have started mine in the greenhouse, and I will be planting them in the outdoor garden area. I just haven’t decided where yet.

This blog post isn’t just about planting. I do have to show off my Dark Brahma cockerel.

I love the Dark Brahmas, but I would love to get some Isabella Brahmas. Show me your chickens!

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I’ve loved the breed Russian Orloff for a long time.

When we lived in the city, I received two chicks not knowing anything about the breed.

The Russian Orloff was considered to be a product of Russia and Orlov. Modern research has discovered that the breed first appeared in Persia and was distributed across Europe also Asia by the 17th century.

In 1884 that the first Orloff chickens were imported to Central Europe from the Russian Empire. The breed then reached the Saxon professor Friedrich Zürn (1835-1900) in Leipzig. The breed then came to possession of Baron Ludwig von Villa-Secca Navarro d’Andrade (1822-1894) to Vienna-Ottakring.

Orloffs were first introduced to Great Britain in the 1920s. Germans created the first miniaturized bantam Orloff by 1925. The breed was once included in the American Poultry Association’s breed standard, the Standard of Perfection, but it was removed due to a lack of interest from breeders. In the 21st century, Russian Orloff remains a rare breed in the West. The Livestock Conservancy lists the breed as critically endangered.

I love being able to help this breed!

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It’s been a long time since my last blog post.

There are a lot of ups and downs. More up than downs, though. We did move, and that was interesting. We have a place we do love, it has 5 aceras, and we can have anything but pigs here ( I don’tknow why I didn’tcheck on why).

Since the move I’ve been busy with the children. Getting our school room unpacked was the top priority. Then, of course, getting the girls ( chickens ) set up. My girls are still laying eggs even with the 8 inches of snow we have gotten. I’ve gotten some breeds I’ve been wanting.

Red shoulder Yokohama is one of the breeds I’ve been wanting forever! This is Dick Best named after

Richard Halsey Best (March 24, 1910 – October 28, 2001) was a dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II.

The hen we named after his wife Doris. We also got turkeys. I find that turkeys, at least these ones, are calm and more gentle than chickens.

Amazingly, in my order of st run, I got all hens! I’ve put in another order, and more turkeys will be coming in June. I’ll laugh if that is all Tom’s 🤣.

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It has been a long time since I have written a blog post. Life got a little crazy, I thought I would coming back writing a blog post about what we have been doing in our schooling this week. We learned about volcanos!

The kids and I made a volcano out of plaster. It’s a small volcano, we decided not to paint it. The kids wanted to get right to the erupting part🤣

The kids made the volcano erupt three times. ( we do not own the rights to the music/ lyrics in the song / theme playing in the video )

My oldest picked the theme music for our volcano experiment. #pleasefollow #pleaseshare #thankyou #mjbackyardingwithkids #homeschooling #largefamily #volcanoweek #sci #homesteading #bakingsodaandvinegar

Sorry I haven’t written in a while.

I’ve been having pain in my ribs. The doctor had thought I cracked my ribs, so they been having me take an easy, which has made things go very slow on my little homestead. ( I would have done this when I fell down the stairs) I did have x rays done but with how backed up things are it took them a while to get me into seeing the doctorand then 3 weeks to wait for the x rays. I finally got the test results back. I do not have cracked ribs; she thinks it’s a really bad pulled chest muscle. She still doesn’t want me lifting. With all this resting I’ve been having to do, I have decided that I want an akita puppy!

So now I’m on the hunt for one.

Even though I don’t have the pup yet, email me with name ideas!

The other day I was talking with a friend on what to do with milk gallons. There are many ideas out there but I wanted to use ours for gardening. My friend sent me a link for a video that uses milk gallon jugs for winter sowing. ( I’ll provide that link at the bottom) how he was using the jugs gave me a wonderful idea.

I would use them the way he was but a bit different. See my cats have were using my pots like they were a port of potty at a concert. I finally got them stop doing that by putting pine cones in the pots, but then my wonderful homesteading helpers started to pull out my plants and the seeds.

In the video you will see that he puts his outside for the winter sowing. For mine they will be kept indoors so I can continue to try to get my growing going year round.

You will need, milk gallon jugs, duct tape, knife, dirt, and your seeds.

I’m looking forward to this working and getting more planting done using this. Here the link for the video talking more about winter sowing. That is done differently than what I’m doing. For cold germination if needed I use the refrigerator. Most of the time I’ve had good luck not having to worry about doing that. way.https://youtu.be/SKXY6dl-5Tk

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I love making my crafts. Normally I would make them and then try to find someone to give it to or just give it to one of my kids. Then someone said many years ago I should do Etsy shop, I always responded with..someday.

The reason for that response was and still is… FEAR. If I don’t put myself out there then I won’t have the feeling of that my art really wasn’t that good, or that I failed and no one went to my shop/didn’t make it as a small business person but if I don’t go through all this I will never know if people really do like my work.

In today’s world it’s not just about them liking it its about the likes, sharing, and the comments. Those are just as hard to get when your scared to try.

Someone asked me this morning what was my new years resolution. I normally do not make them. This year I think I will. Mine is to make my little shop work. To have more people see my art. To have more shares, likes, and hopefully comments! Happy new year to everyone, may this coming year be better for everyone.

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