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Working the night away

February 25, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

We pick up the goats this weekend so I’m maximizing the amount of time I’m putting into the goat shed to finish it in time. The only way to do that is to get the work lights set up. It’s warmer lately, but the sun still goes down so early. A genny and a work […]

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Raising the Roof on the Goat Shed

February 23, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

This weekend seemed to be a really rough one. I’m writing this a few days after the fact but still feeling every muscle. The soreness is taking it’s time to disappear. Getting the boards all lined out for the walls didn’t take too long. Installing the beams and rafters took a lot longer than I […]

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Goat Shed and Paddock Progress

February 15, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

This last weekend was very tiring. I’m actually writing this almost a week later and back dating this post because I wore myself out so much. It all started with purchasing 40 bags of concrete. This amounted to just over 3,000 pounds of concrete. That I had to lift off the trailer and then of […]

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Building a place to Lay Eggs

February 10, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

If you’ve seen our previous post, you know our hens have started laying finally. It took just over 5 months to get them to start but our hens came of age right in the middle of winter. Which in itself isn’t ideal. Chickens like sunlight and when the days are shorter they tend to go […]

Filed Under: Livestock Tagged With: chicken coop, Chickens, eggs, nesting box

Breakfast this morning was homegrown

February 9, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

I’ve been waiting some time now to see if our chickens were ever going to start laying. They are just over 5 months old now, but I figured with the cold weather and decreased sunlight, they came to age in the time they would normally be molting. So I knew it would be a little […]

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Goats: Good News and Bad News

February 9, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Well first the bad news. We received an email from the Fleshman’s one of our goats didn’t make it. Some complication occurred and the goat passed away Friday night. It’s possible it was from worms or an infection. The Fleshman’s mentioned that they had run out of their herbal wormer because the supplier ran out. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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