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The Many Results of COVID-19

It didn't seem possible that COVID -19 could have so much impact on things. It was Friday March 13th and all of my students wondered if w...

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Mar 19
3 min

Poultry Feeds Part 3

Every year I judge between 6 and 10 4-H poultry shows for various counties in eastern Iowa. It is always a fun experience to interact wit...

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Feb 29
3 min

Poultry Feeds Part 2

Homemade feeds can work and at one point in my life worked well. Between my first and second years of college my parents moved to the war...

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The Best Feed For Poultry: 50 years of Experiments Part I

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Feb 19
5 min

The Best Feed For Poultry: 50 years of Experiments Part I

2020 marks 50 years that I have raised poultry. It all began in the Spring of 1970 with 4 small ducklings that I lost to a weasel at 6 w...

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Feb 18
2 min

2020 Blogs- A New Beginning

It has been sometime since I visited this page. I had struggled with what ideas would be the most useful and what would be a waste of ti...

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Sep 22, 2019
2 min

When to Butcher a Traditional Chicken

If it is one question I get more than any other in the poultry world it is when do you butcher a traditional non modern meat maker chicke...

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Sep 2, 2019
4 min

Think about Nature

With all of the news about the burning of the Amazon Rainforest it only seems appropriate for each of us to think about we can do for ou...

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Aug 28, 2019
2 min

CHANGING TIMES FOR THE POULTRY WORLD

These are definitely changing times for the poultry world. In late June the USPS upped the cost to send a 100 size chick box by in some ...

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Year 2050 Where Have All the White egg Layers Gone

sandhill1

May 20, 2019
2 min

Year 2050 Where Have All the White egg Layers Gone

When I started this operation back in 1988 the goal always was and always will be to not focus on profit but preservation and education....

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May 6, 2019
2 min

Starting Sweet potatoes

Roots ready to cover to produce slips in 3-4 weeks is shown above. In the early 1990's it seemed Spring was earlier and Fall was early a...

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May 1, 2019
3 min

Experiments with poultry bedding

I am always searching for the best bedding material for all the poultry that I raise. Growing up in Idaho I got accustomed to using wheat...

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Chicken Breed Hardiness: 30 years of observation

sandhill1

Apr 21, 2019
3 min

Chicken Breed Hardiness: 30 years of observation

The rooster from March 9 now 6 weeks later, healed and breeding again. You can look back at this rooster on the March 9 blog and see how ...

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Apr 15, 2019
2 min

Time to think about good maintenance

We all get busy and think oh what is another day before I do something. Well this week was one of those for me as I had a college concurr...

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Apr 8, 2019
2 min

One way to get a jump on Spring

It is always a risk to set out plants early, but for those of us who have had a long hard winter the first warm days bring out the desire...

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sandhill1

Apr 1, 2019
3 min

Everyone needs a few ducks

Ducks were the first poultry to enter my life, those 4 mixed breed ducklings back when I was 8. They started it all. It will be 50 year...

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sandhill1

Mar 25, 2019
3 min

The Need for Heritage Poultry

Sometimes situations put your mind into gear and make you realize change can just sneak up on you and you you don't even realize how mu...

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Mar 18, 2019
2 min

Time to start early vegetables indoors

Normal planting time for the early spring vegetables here in east central Iowa is sometime in March. Just a week a go it was still gett...

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Spring is coming, just look at these tom turkeys.

sandhill1

Mar 10, 2019
1 min

Spring is coming, just look at these tom turkeys.

It has been a long hard winter and the poultry is all anxious for Spring. I hope to start this section as I learn how it works to provide...

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Sand Hill Preservation Center

Heirloom Seeds & Poultry

1878 230th Street

Calamus, IA 52729

563-246-2299

The Many Results of COVID-19

Poultry Feeds Part 3

Poultry Feeds Part 2

The Best Feed For Poultry: 50 years of Experiments Part I

2020 Blogs- A New Beginning

When to Butcher a Traditional Chicken

Think about Nature

CHANGING TIMES FOR THE POULTRY WORLD

Year 2050 Where Have All the White egg Layers Gone

Starting Sweet potatoes

Experiments with poultry bedding

Chicken Breed Hardiness: 30 years of observation

Time to think about good maintenance

One way to get a jump on Spring

Everyone needs a few ducks

The Need for Heritage Poultry

Time to start early vegetables indoors

Spring is coming, just look at these tom turkeys.