Homesteading on 2 Acres – a Girl and her Dogs
Homesteading on 2 acres in a tiny house; a girl, her dogs, and some vegan recipes
I was told by the employees at multiple feed and hardware stores that water agitators were on back order and ones that didnt require connection to a hose simply didnt exist. For a long time, it seemed like they might be right. I found a way around the problem by buying toddler bath time fountains …
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Recently at a party a man i had supplied with eggs for free at one time sat down beside me and told me that the eggs he was getting from the social worker were much better, the yolks were oranger and richer than mine. He accused me of never giving my chickens people food scraps …
I remembered hearing my boss say something about a guy who gave him cedar berries once and he ate them. I dont remember if he made a tea or just ate them. I vaguely remember him saying something about hoping he could get more because it cured his cedar allergies that year but he had …
The dogs needed their anal glands expressed. I didnt usually get them expressed outside of their checkup because they generally made solid poos and didnt have much to express. However, earlier this year they both had distemper and nearly died. They had runny and mucousy and even bloody poos for a long time and the …
An old beat up diesel truck roared up the dirt path to my house. The dogs signaled alarm at the uninvited visitor. i had the urge to greet the visitor who was clearly pulling over 100 feet onto my property on purpose without permission, with a weapon. I fought the urge to exit the house …
…scorpions are riding on trucks.
It had been raining off and on all week. I came home one day and this is what i saw. Cashew must have rolled in the mud and then stood up and shaken some of it off because she wasn’t coated in it, but there were particles of mud on each strand of fur. It …
Everyone keeps saying we are forecasted to have a wet winter. The rivers are dry so we need the winter to be wet. We need to fill them again if we are to sustain life in this state. However, some are panicking because if the wet comes in the winter it will likely be in …
I didn’t have Sula in mind when i emptied last week’s shavings from the pullet enclosure in the house and filled it with fresh ones. However, if there is a morsel of food somewhere, she finds it. She has been eating the discarded chicken scratch that the crazy birds kick out of the enclosure for …
One day i put the 4 pullets (Georgie, Sofie, Lucy, and Olive) outside in their chicken tractor. It was in the sixties and windy outside. When i went to check on them Georgie was doing a thing called gape breathing. she was stretching her neck out and opening her beak wide to gulp air every …