A journey that began last year has finally come to fruition! Last summer we received word that several hives and bee equipment were being given away in a town nearby. We called to reserve the equipment and headed down with a trailer as soon as we could. We were blown away by the donation of…
Category: Livestock
Egg Washer
Our 35+ chickens are now laying a substantial amount of eggs a week, sometimes over 16 dozen. As you can imagine it has become quite a chore to wash all the eggs. With the help of some internet research we developed our very own egg washer. It will handle about 6 dozen eggs at a…
Chicks to Chickens
What better way to complement spring than with baby chicks? 40 meat birds and 15 layers arrived this past week. Our basement brooder is full of a chorus of cheeps. Along with these new additions, another coop has been added onto our existing hen house to provide more room for our increase in population.
New Arrivals
The farm-yard life recently increased rapidly as we received 16 laying hens from two community members. The hen house is a refurbished 10×12 galvanized shed. All it needed was a little insulating with some donated blue board scraps, some re-framing, a trap door cut and some nesting boxes added. In addition to their coop, the…
Abundance Acres 