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5 Easy Ways to Care for Your Backyard Flock This Winter
When it comes to winter, and cold weather, your barnyard birds are much more hardy than you may realize. While our chickens prefer to stay in the coop on snowy days, the ducks and geese can usually be found running around or laying in the snow. They’ll only spend the day in the coop if I force them to, or if it’s too windy. When it comes to caring for your birds during winter, if you make sure to take care of a few things, you’ll find it isn’t any more work than during warmer months. (None of the links in this post are sponsored. The Product linked in this…
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Early August Garden Tour
At 7300 feet, August is when the garden starts to come alive. The spring crops of radish and peas have since been pulled out. Spring carrots are ready for harvest. Squash is finally starting to flower, and there are tiny tomatoes, peppers, and green beans hanging on the plants. August is when it finally starts feeling like a garden. By the end of the month, the garden summer vegetables will be ready to begin harvesting, and there will be days with a fall chill on the air. So here at the beginning, I thought I’d give you a tour of the garden in photos. It won’t look the same as…
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DIY Duck Brooder Water Solution
*This post is part 2 in a series on raising ducks and geese. For part 1 click here.* Ducks LOVE water. A LOT. They love water so much that they will make a gigantic mess with their water which will soak into their bedding and make your brooder stink to high heaven. There are a lot of different ways people have found to combat this issue, from creating something to sit the water on to brooding outdoors on the ground where it doesn’t matter so much. Our ducks and geese are part pets, part farm workers so we wanted a solution that would allow us to brood in the house…
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Our Decision to get Ducks (and Geese)
*This post is the first in series about raising ducks and geese. My husband and I first started talking about getting ducks years ago. If you haven’t noticed, ducks are adorable, and are reputed to make good pets. However, we were living in town and having even one or two ducks wasn’t an option for us at the time. Fast forward seven years to buying our homestead. Last year, when we put in the garden, I didn’t really know what to expect. Until then, I had been gardening in raised beds that had been filled with a garden soil/compost mixture from the local sand company. Things grew alright here for…
