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Sally PB said:
Welcome! How's the homesteading going? We are slowly working toward that goal. Chickens were part of that this year.

Congratulations on the first eggs! Aren't they magical? I'm still amazed that the girls can turn bugs and grass and kitchen scraps and those brown pellets in to ... eggs!
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Ive had a blast starting the homestead this summer! Along with the chickens I did about an acre and 1/2 totally organic veggie garden, about 30,000 honey bees for the polination and honey and bees wax for all things medicinal, and 3 goats! I will also be doing goat milk products as well! I also planted an organic natural food source bed around my chicken yard for my babies to forage. So yes its been a very busy summer!
 
WOW! I'm impressed with what you got accomplished this year!

I would like to have bees some day. I was just looking into it this March, then Michigan shut down. So the next day I got chickens. :)

You will find that chickens give you LOTS of nice poop for the compost. I've been doing the "hot rot" method for the first time this year. I am making my fifth pile of wonderful compost. It's done in about 3-4 weeks. Caveat: It's a lot of labor. Side effect of the labor: Great arm muscles.

Where are you located? There is a way to put that in so it shows on your info block to the left. It really helps to know what part of the country people are in (or if they're in another country) if they post a question about, well, pretty much anything.
 
Sally PB said:
WOW! I'm impressed with what you got accomplished this year!

I would like to have bees some day. I was just looking into it this March, then Michigan shut down. So the next day I got chickens. :)

You will find that chickens give you LOTS of nice poop for the compost. I've been doing the "hot rot" method for the first time this year. I am making my fifth pile of wonderful compost. It's done in about 3-4 weeks. Caveat: It's a lot of labor. Side effect of the labor: Great arm muscles.

Where are you located? There is a way to put that in so it shows on your info block to the left. It really helps to know what part of the country people are in (or if they're in another country) if they post a question about, well, pretty much anything.
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Im in Minerva Ohio. Its in the Northern area. I planted a totally organic food bed around my chicken yard so they could have lots of treats! They had snownpeas, watermellons, cantalopes, and Indid sunflowers too but I think I pulled them up by mistake! Lol 👀. Compost is definately a way we want to go for soil health. Did rabbit poo also and am thinking of raising them for their poo. I want to be totally self sufficient off of our land. Thats the major goal. So glad to be part of a welcoming group of people!
 

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