Yes. A new group today, so up to 11 babies. But there is a plan to get rid of most of them (lol). My wife is planning to use hers for meat at least.
A couple are in cages in the house, most are in cages in the barn. The ones in the house are on the couch with the girls fairly often.
RIP to your lamp cords. That's what turned our indoor bunny into an outdoor bunny. Neat critter, but liability nightmare. OTH, rabbit is a really versatile protein, one of my favorites for soups and stews. Cool that your kids are involved in the farm and 4H. Def looking forward to that part of dadding.
Two sets of triplets born today, but somehow one of them birthed one into the water trough and it died
Katahdin and Dorper. They are meat sheep that are good for a temperate climate. Meat sheep don't have as much of the gamey flavor as the wool sheep meat that is normally bought in a grocery store.
Anybody ever made their own biochar? Thinking about making a few Buckets up of it out of hardwood charcoal and using it to amend my garden soil this year Garden didn't produce for shit last year so I'm thinking I need to try something new
Besides slaughtering birds and defending oneself from xenomorphs, what are intended uses of that cannon?
Anyone ever used diesel on a burn pile? We have two large burn piles. Last year I couldn’t get them to light worth shit due to them having a bunch of moisture down low. My neighbors all told me to use diesel, which I put on an hour ago but am still a little nervous.
Well, that didn’t work worth shit either. May need to get my neighbors tractor and move it around during the summer for it to dry out or soak a hay bail in diesel.
Diesel is safer than gas, I'd just use gas personally, if you are having trouble with it try using a leaf blower.
I would lift it up and place some brush below then, just need to get air moving underneath. Worst case with this you could start the fire below and have it dry it out more, what type of material are we working with here?
Its been storming and windy pretty much all winter and finally had a couple trees go down and play ping pong with each other. Gave me a chance to put the first few runs on a new Stihl 362 I got this past fall. Sometimes I just enjoy the look of cut wood, this is coastal oak that will end up making it to the BBQ pit for some Santa Maria tri tip or bill dozer chicken. Waiting for a break in the weather to get to burning, have 3 more piles outside of the frame.
Any composters here? Been trying to get more serious about doing it, and just read I can put animal and human hair in the compost pile and it's a great source of nitrogen Anybody ever done that? Trying to get the nerve to ask my barber if I can put a "hair only" trash can in the shop
Been on my list to things to get going, have you found any material on the topic that you’ve liked?
Also we had about 4 or 5 left over straw bales that we’ve decided to use to grow some veggies out of. Never tried it but had a coworker who swore by it, any one ever given it a go?
I was just googling it last night Everything I read said to treat the hair basically like you would vegetable scraps or grass clippings Layer it in and it breaks down in a short time
Same here We also had our second round of lambs a few weeks ago. Ended up with 37 born, but 5 died for various reasons, so have 32 lambs. And the bees are in full swing
I didn't, it came that way, but it makes it easy to find her or to know if she's been replaced. The color used is also tied to a year, so in later years you can know how old the queen is.
I own one, but I actually used my neighbors this time because it's a counter rotation tiller and it is way easier use than my forward rotating tines
Ours too. Built a swarm catching box and put it in one of my treestands for the next couple months. Would be cool to catch some and add to the apiary "naturally". Even if that fails, we're going to be able to split colonies next spring, they're going gangbusters.
I've found just sitting an empty hive out next to my others with some old comb in it has caught 4-5 swarms over the years.