Hello! I've often browsed the forum, but I'd like to become active now that spring is approaching and I've just bought my first incubator - the Brinsea Eco 20 ( I think - lol) . . .and expect to set eggs soon!
My husband and I have three sons (9, 2 and 1) and hope to allow them to grow up with
traditional values and useful knowledge that so many kids
are not able to acquire these days in this society.
We started out with a pony and some Pygmy goats at our first house back
in 2007. My husband became interested in Dairy goats, and we purchased
1 Nubian doe, 1 doling and a buckling in the spring of 2008.
So our herd began, and we have since added more goats of dairy breeding and decided
to raise Nubians, Miniature Nubians, Kinder-like goats and Nigerian Dwarf goats, and we were able to
purchase a very nice Jersey calf to raise occasional heifers later on.
We love being able to meet people along this journey, and we are thankful
for the advice and help we've gotten from people who are also living a similar
lifestyle or raising animals as we are.
We added chickens last spring, and we now have a small flock of 8 BLRW, a few bantams, 3 Welsummers, 2 Barnevelders, 3 RIRs, 2 Orphingtons, 2 Ameraucana, 2 Delawares and more!
You can see all sorts of chickens photos of our mini flock on our site at lucasfarmwv and then under chickens
As a note: I am a 14 year ova-lacto vegetarian; however, I am HUGE supporter of raising your own animals and getting away from
commercially slaughtered and raised animals. While I personally just choose to not eat meat, we plan to raise some livestock for food
in order to provide our family, other than myself, with humanely raised meat. If you can abstain from meat, awesome, but if not, PLEASE
BUY only human raised meats, and humanely gained eggs and dairy!
And I do a blog about my whole journey at
thevegetarianhomesteader at blogspot
if anyone wants to check it out
My husband and I have three sons (9, 2 and 1) and hope to allow them to grow up with
traditional values and useful knowledge that so many kids
are not able to acquire these days in this society.
We started out with a pony and some Pygmy goats at our first house back
in 2007. My husband became interested in Dairy goats, and we purchased
1 Nubian doe, 1 doling and a buckling in the spring of 2008.
So our herd began, and we have since added more goats of dairy breeding and decided
to raise Nubians, Miniature Nubians, Kinder-like goats and Nigerian Dwarf goats, and we were able to
purchase a very nice Jersey calf to raise occasional heifers later on.
We love being able to meet people along this journey, and we are thankful
for the advice and help we've gotten from people who are also living a similar
lifestyle or raising animals as we are.
We added chickens last spring, and we now have a small flock of 8 BLRW, a few bantams, 3 Welsummers, 2 Barnevelders, 3 RIRs, 2 Orphingtons, 2 Ameraucana, 2 Delawares and more!
You can see all sorts of chickens photos of our mini flock on our site at lucasfarmwv and then under chickens
As a note: I am a 14 year ova-lacto vegetarian; however, I am HUGE supporter of raising your own animals and getting away from
commercially slaughtered and raised animals. While I personally just choose to not eat meat, we plan to raise some livestock for food
in order to provide our family, other than myself, with humanely raised meat. If you can abstain from meat, awesome, but if not, PLEASE
BUY only human raised meats, and humanely gained eggs and dairy!
And I do a blog about my whole journey at
thevegetarianhomesteader at blogspot
if anyone wants to check it out
