Last year we could not use the stall in the barn for the cows because the rain (70 plus inches in this part of the country) would run off the back of the barn to right in front of the stall opening. It was a sea of mud all winter. To solve this [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Barn Lean to Project
Posted in Infrastructure, The Homestead on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dark Cornish Experiment update
Posted in Critters, Poultry on September 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Last year we decided to try Dark Cornish chickens. We got 50 in June and put most of the roosters in the freezer in November – they could have been done in September but we didn’t get around to it! The rest lived in the garden/field until spring. Our hopes were that they would [...]