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New Goats Coming and the Fleshman’s

January 27, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

We had the outstanding pleasure of meeting a very wonderful family up in Guthrie, OK. The Fleshman Family. You can see a lot about the Fleshman’s at their website Grace Family Farm. The great news is that they have 3 doelings freshly weened. We were also extremely lucky that they were willing to board them for […]

Filed Under: Livestock Tagged With: Friends, Goats, Milk

Clearing the Property and a New Road

January 25, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

We have 10 acres around our little homestead, but we’ve had a hard time getting it cleared and getting access to the entire place. We fixed it this weekend. We completely brush hogged the entire property, we left all the trees and any saplings. And we also have a ravine in the back that cuts […]

Filed Under: Homesteading Tagged With: Homesteading, Tractor

Happy Chickens

January 18, 2014 by Jason Diehl 2 Comments

We had the opportunity to continue finishing up the Chicken Coop. We still aren’t completely finished but we have one door cut so on nice days they can come out. There is one problem: They don’t want to come out. HAHA. Ashley says that the reason they don’t want to come out is because the […]

Filed Under: Livestock Tagged With: chicken coop, Chickens

Adding a Carport

January 15, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

On our little homestead we have this really great barn and we are slowly adding lots of equipment that we need to take care of our growing farm. The problem I’m having right now is that our barn is filled up with a tractor, lawn mower, and just generally packed in there. Initially the roof […]

Filed Under: Homesteading Tagged With: construction, Homesteading, Tractor

A new Golf Cart

December 15, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

So over the last few months we keep adding more and more around our homestead. We have aquaponics over there, a barn over here, chickens and goats going down there. I even set up a deer feeder on the very back of the property for bringing in some deer for hunting season. I’ve discovered that […]

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Moving The Chicken Coop

November 30, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

As you may know from my previous article: Can’t Fight the Clipboard I had to move the chicken coop because I built it too close to the diesel pipeline that I just found out rolls through the back of our property. The joys of homesteading. There is always a surprise around the corner. Moving the chicken […]

Filed Under: Homesteading, Livestock Tagged With: chicken coop, construction

Can’t fight the clipboard

September 17, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Well I was sitting at home one day and I heard my driveway alarm suddenly go off. I get up and take a look of course. And I see a white truck driving past the house and into the back of the property. This is a concern of course. Who is just making themselves at […]

Filed Under: Homesteading, Livestock Tagged With: Chickens, shelter

The hassle of chicken water

September 8, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Chickens tend to be typical bird brains. They just don’t understand that they need water to survive and that it tastes much better when it’s clean. So when I set up the standard chicken watering devices, the chickens stand on the edges, they go to the bathroom in it. They scratch around close to it. […]

Filed Under: Livestock Tagged With: Chickens, water, watering

Coop update

September 4, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

I’ve been building my Chicken Coop (or should I say chicken palace) every weekend for over a month now. I think I definitely decided on a coop that was much bigger and elaborate than I needed. However, the chickens are going to be the most comfortable chickens in Oklahoma, HAHA. The pictures are below, I’ve […]

Filed Under: Livestock Tagged With: chicken, construction, coop

Aquaponics update

August 30, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

It’s been several weeks now. The Aquaponics has been doing well based on Murray Hallam’s method and using IBC Totes. You can see some of the leaves are seeing some punishment. I let my PH get a little out of hand. For some reason it keeps drifting higher and higher. Need to track down the […]

Filed Under: Aquaponics Tagged With: grow beds, IBC tote, PH Problem

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