I had an early phone call from the post office this morning. It was one I was expecting. The chicks I ordered from an in-state hatchery wer...

... ten chicks! I turned off the incubator today and put it away. There were a total of 11 chicks that hatched, 7 Swedish Flower Hens and ...

They have started hatching!! So far we have 6 total, 3 each of the Swedish Flower Hen and Wheaten Marans. Here's a picture of one of...

...they hatch! Well I'm not counting them yet, but I do have a few eggs wiggling and a little chirping going on! My wait for some Sw...

So here are the updated photos of the garden taken yesterday. All the rain we've gotten this week has helped keep everything growing wel...

Our newly built raised beds were put into place back in May. We bought compost from Hsu's greenhouse supply in Brokaw and added peat mos...

Up until this week June had been a very dry month here in Marathon County. In the last few days we've been blessed with a few inches of ...

It's been quite some time since I did an update on the chicken coop construction. Well, things are looking great! All 4 windows are in. ...

The turkeys are 4 weeks old now and getting big. It was time for them to move out of their brooder in our pole building and out into their c...

I got the call from the feed store this afternoon. The turkey poults we ordered were in!! This one was pretty sleepy when I got them ...

If you enjoy gardening then you know all about the benefits of using compost. Black gold it is often called. It adds needed nutrients and he...

Today was a bit too cold and windy to work outside on the chicken coop. Instead we set up in the shop to work on building two more raised be...