Looking for ways to make our household into a self-sustaining homestead is always interesting. Having a real functioning Homestead is not something most people think about in this day and age, but surprisingly enough, more and more people are beginning to take a serious 2nd look at the idea. With the economy behaving as unstable [...]
We are making the best use of every summer day that is dry between some really intense thunderstorms, I heard on the radio that in the past month we’ve had 94mm of rain which is far too much really. Despite all the wet ground, our farm projects are cruising along and being fairly productive. Currently [...]
The heat of summer is upon us, we’ve had a couple of 27C days last week which is too hot for my comfort and that of our black-furred dogs. (and yesterday, torrential rain of about 3″ total, flooded us a bit, welcome to Alberta weather!) I’m very glad our barn is a much cooler and [...]
Well things have been very busy around here lately, but in a stop and go fashion as I’ve had 2 trips to BC for several weeks at a time each. It in general has been cold and wet during the periods I’ve been at home from April till now so only half of our fence [...]
We have a new purebred Flemish buck in the barn who is impressively huge, yet completely adorable at the same time! He’s about 4 months old right now and we are excited to see how well he does with our does when he comes of age. He’s the largest rabbit we have so far and [...]
It’s shaping up to be a busy time on the farm with the arrival of spring! We have a new litter of 9 rabbits just born last night, and I’m excited to see 6 dark-skinned babies in with the 3 light-skinned ones. We’re trying for blue fur and it looks promising so far. The white [...]
It’s kidding season here at the farm for the first time! Lisa our older Nubian doe kidded last week and had 2 buckling kids (though only 1 survived), and our other doe Aega had her buckling kid this morning. It was Aega’s first kidding so she only had one baby. I hope next time she [...]
It’s been a busy few weeks at the farm lately! We decided to attend the Wetaskiwin Rabbit and Poultry show last weekend to see what shows were like and took a couple of our rabbits there and entered them in all the classes. Our Jr. Flemish Giant buck Argent won 2 Best of Breed ribbons [...]
Yesterday was “D” day (dinner day) at the farm for 3 of our 6 month old rabbits! It was the first time we’ve done the full process of processing from cage to table. After a goodly amount of researching all the various methods we got on with it. Darren helped me with the dispatching to [...]
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