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I think I'll have to eat my words about the snow. On Tuesday I had to drive in that crap and ended up messing up my driver rear on the guardrail, and I was only going 35mph! I was trying to get over to avoid a semi and fishtailed all over the road. And I even have AWD. I'm super sad. In...

I hope things work out for you. I think maybe the unexpected late spring weather likely had an impact. Maybe add a bit of honey or maple syrup or molasses into it? Only if it's pure.

A bit of driving snow here and there but definitely looks like a spring snow. I had laundry on the line because I only have time to do it on the weekends, and nothing was sticking. I left it overnight, and then my fella brought it in first thing this morning because of course it's been...

I wanted so much more but we only have like 2.5". Granted I can be excited now that we have the snowblower for the tractor with our 1/3 mile driveway, plus all the paths to the outbuildings

Snow! I may be the only person excited about this :p

I really want to do kraut this year. I haven't yet since we've been here (five years already!) because my fella hates sauerkraut and so do half of the kids. They're horrible German descendants ;) But it is nice to can and I can do enough in one summer to last three years. Okay, this'll have...

This is such a bizarro weather time we live in, man. I'm loving the sun and everything, missing having my wood stove going, worried about this summer's heat and water situation, and working on setting up our greenhouse if possible, because it blew away spectacularly in that wind storm 2yrs ago...

Anyone been syruping? We're already done for the year, because we don't need a ton. 3 gallons'll do us for at least a year.

I haven't but have heard of them. And now I realize that I'm less than 15 miles from them, which I never quite realized.

We have been doing deep litter too, and overall I like it. But it's so dusty and I think that with our volume of birds we're actually wasting a lot of feed. They drop it and don't bother picking it up. Always trying to tweak things

We have ten pens and I’m going to see if I should just sweep them out weekly or every other week. I feel like I’d use a little more bedding but save a ton of time and keep the mice from having so many hiding spots.

Sure feels like spring out there for sure, and I'm just waiting for the second (third?) winter to drop again. But YES the birds are thrilled and we got the barn cleaned out a month earlier than usual! [Hello again from Marshall, I am formerly keedokes and changed my handle!]

Jim that leanto looks great! I hope you're able to get your forks fixed. I wanted to tell you that the dinner roll recipe you shared here ages ago is a staple at our house and I had the opportunity to make bigger buns for our rotisserie chicken the other day when we had guests--homemade rolls...

Oh! And our big news this spring is that we bought our farm finally after three years, AND we got a Livestock Conservancy grant to put towards our outdoor chicken runs! It's been sloooow going getting it up but so far so good. Ten exterior runs, partially covered, and we're probably paying...

Helloooo Cheeseheads. Important question--can I stop the stupid "day job" BS and just raise birds and farm? How 'bout the teenagers. Can I pause on that responsibility? No? *grump* Jim, let me know how those reusable lids work, we've been wanting to switch over too. We did 55 quarts of...

Got nuthin'.

I like this setup. It makes me want to wall off a small portion of our barn to make an extended interior storage room away from chicken dust, with the option of heating. Cool!

Happy Christmas all! Just checking in after a loooong hiatus. I know that two years ago things were CRAZY for us, and we were so stressed out. Pandemic isn't making things peachy this year but we're doing okay. We had a nice holiday at home. We got the big barn cleanup done and divided into...

But here is a turkey picture. Also we’re incubating welsh harlequin ducklings atm!

@MadisonOde no advice here, either :( Maybe try a broader audience in the main forum? We are SO BUSY and rather stressed here. Waiting on our farm lease to access some resources through the state. No kids here right now for a few which is great but I can’t take time off to enjoy time with Jeff...