Mostly I've started this as a place to keep track of our farm successes and failures and the thousands of ideas and projects I have swimming around in my head. I thoroughly enjoy reading a crazy amount of blogs by other people and am always thinking of how I can adopt or improve upon their ideas for my own uses here, and this will be a great way to keep track of them and share with you at the same time.
We currently raise Delaware dual purpose meat/egg chickens, Nubian dual purpose dairy/meat goats, Muscovy meat ducks and recently added Flemish Giant / New Zealand cross meat rabbits.
While we have yet to actually eat a home raised protein other than eggs and a limited amount of cheese, that should all change very soon.
We have ducks setting nests, chicken eggs in an incubator since our hens have decided they don't have time for children. That's okay ladies, focus on your egg laying careers, I'll take of it!
We have goats due in mid and late summer. They are timed for winter milk, which is often hard to come by, and the only time I have time for soap and cheese making with tending extensive gardens we plant and chasing after a toddler boy all summer long!
The newest additions are the rabbits, two does and a buck, who are due in the next couple of weeks.
We have goals of our tiny imitation of a farm to not only be practically self-sufficient as far as our own food supply and a large portion of the animals food as well, but to produce enough to make a dollar or two with selling the surplus. A lofty goal for two tiny acres I know, but others have proven that it can be done. I happen to love all the work that it entails anyway, so why not?
