Ruffled Feathers and Spilled Milk

Farming with ducks and dairy goats, chickens and children.

Numbnuts

There’s no remedy for stupid.  You can’t change it, you just have to work around it.  If you’re lucky you will have one smarty pants in the flock that all the numbnuts will follow.  If you’re unlucky you will have one numbnuts and all the smarty pants will be blinded by his charisma and will […]

Get your priorities straight.

Sometimes you can really do it all.  Calm down, men.  I am not about to tell you how to multitask.  I’ve been married for 10 years.  I concede that men cannot multitask.  Even if they wanted to (which they don’t).   I’m talking about prioritizing.  A farm may be  plagued by disasters, overpopulated, out resourced, and […]

Backyard Chickens

So, you wanna raise chickens?  Sure, everybody’s doing it.   The people have spoken, the city leaders have relented, let there be backyard chickens!   I applaud the efforts of this uprising and, in appreciation, offer some of the tidbits I have learned during my years with chickens.   Gather ’round and listen close.  You […]

Goats in the Toolbox

It isn’t hard to convert a duck barn into something more useful.  My husband and I looked it over and decided that with a bit of tweaking the barn would hold our expanding goat population quite nicely.  Out with the nest boxes, some side boards over the wire, a couple new doors, raise the water […]

The Weaker Sex

So, I arrived last night at my friend’s farm to milk and guess what I found?  8 happy males loose in the all-female (obviously) milking herd.  Turns out the little stinkers (and I do mean stinkers—they like to wear their own urine as cologne) broke the bottom hinge on their gate.  The small Nigerian males […]

Little House on the Prairie (of Death)

C’mon, you know that’s what it had to be like.   I know it had to be like that and I only have a couple breeds of poultry and live on just 4 acres.  But since the day I started farming I spend as much time dealing with dead animals as I do collecting eggs and […]

End of Grade Test

Word Problem. (Involves Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Environmental Studies, Social Situations, and Mathematical Analysis) You own a small free range duck farm. You have not completed permanent housing for the flock.  Breeding and hatching season has arrived. Resolve the following scenarios: 1.  5 ducklings hatched out in an incubator. YOU are their mother. Ducklings cannot […]

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