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Do I need to keep it in the house to keep it from drying out too fast?

I was going to add this question to my pig post, but I thought it might be better to make it a separate post. I have 40 grown chickens, 8 4-week old chicks, an incubator full of eggs, and all the wheat I want. How do I go about sprouting that much wheat for that many chickens? I've sprouted...

I have a source for all the wheat I want. Dad said I need to ferment the wheat first before I feed it to the pigs. How exactly do I go about this? Three days ago I put half of a coffee can of wheat in a 3 gallon bucket and filled it up with water. Do I just soak the wheat in water until it...

My aunt puts one of those blue ice pack things in her bucket before she starts milking. To her the milk tastes better if it is cooled down quickly.

We dodged the bullet last night too. Tornadoes touched down west of us and north of us. Lots of damage all around us, but nothing out of place here thankfully.

Thanks for the replies. The bulbs are only about 2 inches in diameter. They've only been in the ground about 6 weeks. I think I'll cover them for a little longer. Thanks for the link though, there is a bunch of good info I'll bookmark for later.

After just cleaning up a "leaky" egg that was in the incubator I can only hope that one day I'll get a broody and won't have to use my incubator. In the 5 years I've had chickens I've yet to have one go broody. I'm hoping that a couple of the bantams I bought my son last month will go broody...

We got a heavy rain the other day and now the top part of the onion bulb is starting to poke up through the garden. Is this ok or should I add some more dirt to cover them up?

Love the lambs! Almost makes me wish I had sheep again. :P Good luck with the egg. I have never had a chicken go broody, despite all my pleading with them.

We have one we use as a picnic table

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Well, I learned a lot yesterday. I learned that six week old pigs can run right through cattle panels and I learned that my dog Nelson has a taste for uncured bacon. Luckily both the pig and the dog survived. Nelson heard that the pig's name is Dinner, he just didn't understand that she is MY...

Reinforcing my pig pen and weeding the garden, exciting huh?

:weee I've got the incubating bug too. I'm doing a staggered hatch this time. I figured it can't be any harder than the last batch when I didn't have electricity for all of day 20. The first batch is on day 12 and the second batch is on day 8. I candled last night and only had 3 out of 32...

We've always left them on, but this year we had a rooster start attacking the kids when I wasn't around. We used a dremel tool on the spurs. It mellowed him out a bit, but not much. He will still attack, it just doesn't do as much damage as before.

Just tilled the garden and the corn patch. The guy I'm buying my bees from called last night and said he'd be here in two weeks with my bees :celebrate I've finally decided where I'm going to put the pig pen, for this year at least. There is a 200sq foot area beside my garden that I can't...

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I just put in an offer for two Saanen goats. My husband is going to think I went off the deep end. :hide

Just set 18 Silver-Laced Wyandotte eggs. :fl that this batch is less eventful than the last one.