We had a busy weekend out at the farm. Unfortunately, not busy doing the things we had intended to do… We arrived at the farm to find the electric poultry netting shorting out due to standing water in the run. There was also standing water in the chicken coop. Talk about a nasty (and smelly) …
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Chickens and Rabbits!
So we had a very exciting and very productive weekend at the Taylor farm. We’ve been looking for some replacement rabbits as the Californians we started with just weren’t very friendly. The kids really want to be able to pet them and interact with them and those rabbits were just downright MEAN. In fact, the …
Baby Chicks!!!
So we FINALLY got to bring out baby chicks this weekend. The kids were soooooo excited. We got quite a bit done on Saturday, as you can see here. We got our roosting bars built and assembled some pretty cool gravity fed feeders that hold 25 pounds of feed. It was definitely a neat project …
Are We Crazy?
Well, maybe. Johnny and I have been married 15 years and we have always talked about having our own farm. We’ve always been very frugal and careful with our finances but the dream was still a dream. We hoped that when we retired, we would be able to purchase a retirement home on some land, …
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