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Good job done there. That is very similar to both our indoor and outdoor petchkas that we have been using for @ 13 years now. Great for not only cooking on and in but they give out some great heat for those cold nights inside and out. Ours have a removable rectangular cast iron top with two circular...

You're doing very well, those dairy products sound great. Started clearing and clipping all their hooves today as well, as they are not on commercial feed this is a nice and easy task. Is there a link between easier clipping and non-commercial feed, Adjee? A lot of commercial feed is grain based wh...

A quick update: Two goats have kidded, three bucks and one doe between them, Two of the bucks are really solid and have grown rapidly in a few weeks so we will band them and keep them for meat. We separated the kids last night so had our first milking session this morning, great to have goats milk b...

To add my two pennies worth. We grow Onions from seed and plant from bulbs. We collect our own seeds from onion plants (as we do from all we grow) that have not bolted or showing signs of ill health the previous year. To grow our seeds we use plastic guttering drilled with drainage holes, filled wit...

If eating squirrel remember to remove the musk glands or the meat gets tainted.

I have been building a new run for the chickens. I wasn't sure if we were going to enjoy keeping chickens but it's been good so they can stay :) i'm upgrading their home and also have ordered some temporary fencing stuff so I can increase their space during the day but they will no longer have acce...

Goats are on my radar as with more room we can keep a wider range of livestock. We have kept 3 sheep before and 1 pig. Cows do seem more of a faf and we would need bigger shelters as our weather is pretty wild. A good solid meat goat is the Boer but they are hard to find and purchase here outside t...

Originally we considered keeping a cow for our milk supply but always wanting to be self- reliant we would have had to keep a bull as well and that would not have been cost effective so to achieve our aims we opted to keep goats. We have a mixed breed herd of goats with each having their own benefit...

We split all we grow between water bathing, dehydrating, pressure canning and freezing (we also have been experimenting with some of the old fashion food storage techniques). Some products we preserve individually, others are combined also we pressure can full meals which are great to use (as you p...

Today we did a stock check on our freezers. We run four main freezers, one each for meat, vegetables, fruit and dairy alongside our general use ones. Normally these would be depleted by now ready to be restocked this season but with the way things went last year all are still brimming so the next w...