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Home on the Hill: Reflections
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Thursday, January 02, 2014. It's been quite a while since I've updated this blog. It's not that I haven't been up to a few projects this year its simply that l been doing updating on various social media and not aggregating it in this blog. The pig herd keeps growing. We have three boars now. Two Berkshires and Polka Dot our Duroc/Berkshire cross. We tried some Turkeys this year. Hi Art happy to be up to date with your blog. Looks to me like your back to yearly ...
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Home on the Hill: 14_01
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Thursday, January 02, 2014. It's been quite a while since I've updated this blog. It's not that I haven't been up to a few projects this year its simply that l been doing updating on various social media and not aggregating it in this blog. The pig herd keeps growing. We have three boars now. Two Berkshires and Polka Dot our Duroc/Berkshire cross. We tried some Turkeys this year. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The weather. Usually it's 5c warmer at our house. Grinning ...
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Home on the Hill: Why Did The Cornish Giant Cross the Road
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Monday, August 12, 2013. Why Did The Cornish Giant Cross the Road. To get to the tractor! Scratch for delectables, feel grass between their toes, build up those drum sticks, fertilize the field - lot's of reasons really. And they are all important to building a plump, chemical free, juicy, tasty freezer filling chicken. Need I say more? Here's the Chicken Motor Home. They quite liked the ride down the road, over the gate, and into the pasture. No plastic. It's r...
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Home on the Hill: Foggy Hollow
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Wednesday, March 05, 2014. We are having a very strange weather pattern. It's deep January but the temperature is only around 5C ( 41F). We've had over a week of fog. The old timers say they have never seen anything like this. The ice fog precipitates and turns the most mundane of objects into graceful art work. I think it is astonishingly beautiful. The tree's become studies in black and white:. I am contemplating growing some oats, barley and pea shoots in the gre...
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Home on the Hill: 13_04
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Back from a trip down south. While I was away one of our Sows decided it was time to bring forth some new piggies into the midst. So Jo-Ann, with the help of some friendly neighbours got to handle the event. We lost five of the litter of eight. A pretty tough blow. The cause seems to be that the piglets got away from the mom and got too cold. The culprit is suspected to be too much hay. This is the 2 x 4 walkway over top of the creeps, so ...
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Home on the Hill: Turkeys
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Sunday, August 11, 2013. Just finished the summer version of the Turkey Palace. It's set in about a quarter of an acre behind a stucko wire fence. They sure seem to like it. Next year were considering a Turkey Tractor, a mobile big enough to cart over our pastures. While Jo was in Britain some erstwhile volunteers and I whacked about 60 chickens. Most of them Cornish Giant meat birds that we grew in a Chicken Tractor, ala, Salatin. Thing I've learned:. Grinning from...
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Home on the Hill: I'm Back!
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Haven't been posting anything for a while. A combination of moving to different technology - tablets and hand helds and having my Laptop getting a keyboard replaced. All nice and spiffy now. But the spell check is not working in Blogger so that should make it interesting. As you might be able to tell. This lot's about ready for some processing. I am getting an urge for baked chicken! Glad to see youre back! What the heck is a weiner? Glad you...
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Home on the Hill: 14_12
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Monday, December 08, 2014. The Year Of The. Exactly. What happened this year? The well ran dry. That's a whole lot of digging but we will be assured of water. Hopefully a lot of snow and a wet spring will bring the water table back up. I actually pay for water rights on a river I have never seen, that flows into our pond. It flows underground now. This year we switched to Orlop Bronze turkeys. Ditto Meat Birds. We tried a new variety this year, the Ross bird. Stay w...
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Home on the Hill: 14_05
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Tuesday, May 27, 2014. I can tell 'cuz I have to have the truck in four wheel drive to get it around my driveway. We are transitioning to Berkshires. The Royal Pig. Here are a couple of princesses having a late morning nap. Of course any road bulding job requires a supervisor. We put a culvert in right where the wet area was so run off from the roof isn't a problem anymore. We have twenty turkeys and 40 layers in the incubator. With another 100 meat birds coming...
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Home on the Hill: February - Or it isn't January any More.
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Home on the Hill. The "re tired" Life. Tuesday, February 03, 2015. February - Or it isnt January any More. It's been snowing for the last week or so. That's great as we will need the moisture come August. Gotta love it when the winter sun comes out. The Turkeys look like black swans sailing over the snow. These turned into 42 lbs dressed. Took a big oven and roaster pan to fit them! Thanks for dropping by. We'll be keeping an eye on you! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Geological Survey of Canada.