Just a reminder of our 9th Annual Homesteading Weekend coming up the weekend after Father's Day.
Check out the link in my signature line for more details.
It is always a great time to connect with like-minded folks and we love having birds here for swap or trade.
Question for those hatching poults ... do you let the hen brood them or do you take them from the hen and brood them yourself??
We have done it both ways these last 10 years. Always have better results when we brood the poults ourselves. When we leave the poults with the hens, we experience...
Just a reminder of the 8th Annual Homesteading Weekend being held at our place June 22-24, 2012
See the webpage for more information.
Folks from BYC & Homesteading Today will be meeting up here, as well as other folks.
You're practically a neighbor!! We're south of Rock Falls in Whiteside County.
Try to come to our 8th Annual Homesteading Weekend this June. We're planning a BYC meet up then!
I'd be able to host the one on our regular Homesteading Weekend ... the weeks leading up to that weekend are filled with getting the homestead 'spit shined' so I wouldn't be able to host an earlier weekend.
I only put up the poll because Paradise said we needed one!!
Here is the link to the...
Weekend after Father's Day. I believe that is the 22-24? We have room for folks to primitive camp.
We're located south of Rock Falls, between exits 36 & 41 on I-88
Jamie, You really should venture about 45 miles to the east of you to our place. We can give you an education on chickens (& other poultry) as well as other homesteading things you can do in town! I kept chickens, honey bees & meat rabbits at my home in the middle of a subdivision before we...
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and to the Illinois thread!! I'm just east of you, between I-88 and I-80, west of I-39. What kind of flock do you have?
And I'm between the two of you in Whiteside County.
If you don't have coyotes, then you have fox. Of the two, I prefer coyotes. They'll take a bird, but they...
Winter of '78/79 was a good one. Very similar to last year's snow, except 78/79 had more ice. Now there was a late blizzard in the early 70's where I remember finding Easter eggs in 1'-2' of snow!
I was born down south in 1960 and moved to the eastern IA area in 1969. I lived in eastern NC...
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Where abouts in Lee Co?? We're in the south east corner of Whiteside County ... between Rock Falls and Tampico! I'd love to get together with you! Every June (the weekend after Father's Day) we have a "Homesteading Weekend". I'd love it if you and your family would come! Heck, we...
Errr ... I hate doing ducks, even though we have a plucker! If I have to do ducks (home-use) they get skinned so I don't have to deal with the feathers.
If I'm collecting down for a pillow, I can easily collect it from the skinned duck!