July 2008 Archives

Since late winter I have been busy doing some things on this little farm of ours. "Like what?" you may ask.

Well, let's see. We  have -

-built honey bee hives and installed 2 hives with queens.

- hatched geese (buff dewlap toulouse, grey dewlap toulouse, sebastopols, embdens and some mixed mutts)

- hatched ducks (silver appleyards)

- hatched chickens (blue/black/splash and buff orpingtons)

- hatched guineas (giant pearl)

- hatched turkeys (broad breasted and standard bronze)

- hatched coturnix quail (brown and golden)

- started a meat rabbitry - and seen the first mammals to be born on this little farm (Californian whites)

- bottle fed bucklings to sire my herd (2 nubian boers)

- got lambs (freisian milk sheep crosses)

- got a pig (pretty little hampshire girl)

- started a meal worm farm (for which to feed my quail)

- got kefir grains and culture my own kefir

- have scoby coming for my own kumbocha (yum living foods!)

What have you been doing?

It is busy around here!

I wanted to show you some of the inside of the bee hives. It has been about 6 weeks now and I wanted you to see inside the hives as the bees work.