Chicken (or poultry) feed nutritional labels can be somewhat confusing, but poultry feed manufacturers carefully formulate their rations to help us chicken-keepers get excellent results when using them (see How To Feed Your Chickens). They do this by segregating chicken feeds into those that are appropriate for meat or dual-purpose and egg-laying breeds (broiler or layer rations). Then they further categorize them into nutritionally complete feeds for day-old chicks, growing chicks, or adult ... continue reading...
Creating Beautiful Container Plantings (thrillers, fillers, & spillers)
Creating beautiful container plantings is easy if you understand the concept of using thrillers, fillers, and spillers. I'm not sure my container plantings are always gorgeous, but they usually turn out pretty nice because years ago I learned to use at least one "thriller", "filler", and "spiller" when planting the container. And if you've got room, throw in a "chiller" to make it exciting. I read about the concept long ago, but every year as I'm picking out plants for containers, it ... continue reading...
Easy Cucumber, Onion, & Dill Salad (keto-friendly too!)
This easy cucumber, onion, & dill salad is practically a staple in our refrigerator when we have cucumbers and onions coming out of the garden. Although it's quite simple, it's very refreshing and tastes like a "new pickle" to me. I originally found this recipe in a cookbook by the "Frugal Gourmet", Jeff Smith. Since we've been doing a "keto" type diet, we were also excited to learn that Swerve can be substituted for the sugar to make a "keto-friendly" version of this salad. What Goes ... continue reading...
Disbudding Goats (Two Methods)
My original post on disbudding dairy goats detailed the methods and tools we used for removing horns from our goat kids when we first started with Nigerian Dwarf goats. This original method utilizes a disbudding box (there are plans for a disbudding box HERE) and an electric disbudding iron. We later learned better methods (in our opinion) and tools for disbudding our goats that I wrote a separate post on. In this method, we wrap the kids in a towel to control them and use a gas disbudding ... continue reading...
Making Goat Milk Butter (with a KitchenAid mixer)
I've read that you need a cream separator (see one HERE) and butter churn for making goat milk butter, but we've come up with a method that doesn't require either of those pieces of equipment. Instead, we manually separate the cream from the goat milk and use a KitchenAid mixer to churn the butter. It takes a few days, but the cream in the goat milk does separate and rise to the top of the jars we use for storing the milk; so we just spoon the cream off and add it to a freezer container of ... continue reading...
New Chicken Coop Paint Protection
New chicken coop paint protection is one of the first things anyone considering a new wooden chicken coop this spring should consider. It can make a tremendous difference in how well the coop performs through the years. Why Consider Chicken Coop Paint Protection? By painting the interior wood surfaces of a coop before adding chickens, you help protect the wood, make it harder for chicken parasites to hide out, and make the coop easier to clean. It's much easier to accomplish this before ... continue reading...
10 Recipes For Spring Veggies
These 10 recipes for fast-growing spring veggies are so rewarding because they taste awesome made from vegetables you can harvest fresh from your garden in less than 70 days (see 10 Vegetables To Grow In 10 Weeks for how to grow them). Prepared simply with quality ingredients, nothing can compete with their just-picked, home-grown goodness. Use these classic recipes to turn these veggies into the finest comfort food for your table. The 10 Recipes For Spring Veggies Veggie #1 Arugula & ... continue reading...
Growing Lazy Bed Potatoes (A Complete Guide)
Potatoes may not be the first vegetable we think of growing in the garden because grown traditionally, they require a large chunk of real estate and lots of time. But, by using the “lazy bed" method of growing potatoes, surprisingly large crops of potatoes can be grown in small spaces with very little time and effort. That’s exciting, particularly for folks with small gardens. Even with limited space, time, and energy, there’s still a method for producing spectacular tasting spuds! All About ... continue reading...
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