There are many things we can learn from spiders and they are such beneficial animals to have. Yes, there are dangerous ones but part of...

30 years of working on preservation and we finally have reached where we have all of our chickens, ducks and geese in better...

I originally wrote this in early August 2020 but the Derecho changed the routine. I have since started using the tiller this Spring of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...