Recent content by sodamancer

I started this post, and yes i still read it. My chickens have been gluten free for a year ish and my daughter no longer reacts to our eggs. I sprout my seed, not a full on fodder system, but just a 4 day sprout and feed on day five. I use a grain mix of 2parts oats, 2 parts millet, and 1 part...

I have a nigerian. She is great. I personally really prefer my lamancha though. The tempermant is so wonderful on her. We keep our on an urban .27 acre for milk and cheese. We just bred our lamancha doe and she is due the 25th of may if she took.

So I way over estimated the hay consumption. My 2 pregnant does go through a bale a week of organic timothy orchard grass mix that I found at a great farm center for 10$ a bale. Yea for me only needing 60ish bales a year. That makes me VERY happy. Plus a bale of starw a month for bedding. so...

I am using oats and sunflower seeds

Thanks. I have a couple of those rubber tubs. Poor duckies. I only have 6 and hopefully soon will only have 4.

I have a poultry feeder that i have been using for the ducks. They are making a terrible mess with it and wasting ALOT of feed. I think it may be because their bills keep getting stuck. So what do ya'll use to feed your ducks? Pics are great. I am handy but try to keep things simple if...

my chickens love the oats leftover that the goats dont eat and the soaked milo barely mix. i dont feed pellets any longer just fodder and whole seeds and oyster shells.

I have switched to a fodder system. ITS AWESOME and so much cheaper. Yes i am using a gluten grain but once its been grassed it no longer has the gluten protien. check out this link for excellent info on fodder systems. Frühlingskabine Micro-Farm | Our adventure in gardening, angora rabbits...

I do believe offense was completely intended. A farm is not always for meat. Some farms are for dairy, some for vegetables, some for raising fiber animals and then of course there are meat farms. Since i am doing at least 3 of those things i do think i can handle my own farm without not...

t wasnt the blood or the killing it was the nasty smell. EWW. I have never smelled something so unnatural. Its just not right! The rabbits .....well killing is hard for me but i have dressed a rabbit and i didnt find it to bad. MEAT Chickens.....i will skip for now. Till i have a real farm!

Oh this was gross. I just helped a friend butcher her 20 birds. Nasty. I can skin a rabbit, dress a pheasant, maybe clean a fish (not my fav.) but i did not enjoy the smell of plucking and all that with the chickens. NO THANKS. I will stick with rabbits. I take a hat off to you all who can...

If you are having TRUE BACKyARD goats then they will be more expensive than farm goats who have access to pasture. I will be buying 50 bales of hay a season.....so 200 a year, to feed my goats because i have no pasture. I will also need to buy a 50lb bag of feed every 2 months for my milking...

my layers only have a 4x8 coop and there is 8 ladies in there plus a 10x10 run

the tractor would be 4x8 and moved daily about my front yard. Enclosed.....well it would have a tarp over 1/2 of it completely wrapped around the frame....then a low roost maybe 6in off the ground.

I can get small lots of meat chicks from a local feed store. The owner orders LOTS and then sells them at a 2.99 ea. This allows the backyard farmer (like me) to give it okay. Honestly we would likely eat 2 birds a month at most. maybe a bit less. The farm store actually keeps pullets in...