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Selling your Livestock

Now that you have started your hobby farm, you need to start thinking about how to sell your extra animals. There are several different...

Hatching Ducklings

With all of our broody chickens, we thought we would try to hatch out some ducklings. I mean, why not, right? Well, we tried it and we...

It Crows, It Cheeps, it's... a duckling?

Our first batch of ducklings are hatching! They are so ugly they are adorable. We were questioning whether or not a chicken would be able...

Double Up Food Bucks

Kyle and I are now official members of the Socorro Farmer's Market. Why is this so good you ask? It is because it lets us be involved in...

The Circle of Life Part 2 - The Set-Up and Process of Butchering

Ok, so you want to butcher. Let me explain the basics of set up and prep leading up to butchering. First, the night before collect your...

The Circle of Life - Butchering on the Farm part 1

Ask anyone, I am an animal lover. I like to start of this blog post by saying that. Butchering is a very controversial thing, and as...

Hatching Ducks

We have decided to try something new. I have been doing some reading and it says that you can use a broody hen to hatch some duck eggs....

The Dangers of heat lamps

We almost had a tragedy on the farm Thursday. I was at work when I received a call from Kyle. Apparently, he came home from work for...

Fish and Ducks - Bad Combo!

Well, it is coming into summer, and that means our duck ponds are getting nasty. We gave our ducks 2 kiddie pools and buried them to make...

Duck Update

The ducks are doing well, now they are actually looking like real ducks! We have the 3 older females, the black Cayuga ducks, that are...

Bumblefoot - Infection of the foot

Bumblefoot is a bacterial infection of the leg that can happen in chickens and ducks. This can happen from a duck getting a small scrape...

Duck Infection - Medicating

One of our poor cayuga ducks ended up with an infection on her leg/foot. This is what many duck people call Bumblefoot. First, how we...