DEALING WITH WILDLIFE IN THE GARDEN
For as long as I can remember I've always had to deal with some form of wildlife destroying the garden and the crops. Growing up in...
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sandhill1
- Sep 1
- 6 min
Understanding Genetic Diversity
If I could be granted just one wish before people ordered anything from us it would be that they understood what genetic diversity is....
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sandhill1
- May 6
- 1 min
Sweet Potato Cake
I have many fond memories of making this cake as it was one of the first things I made for my now wife Linda. Before we were married she...
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sandhill1
- Mar 2
- 2 min
Purple Sweet Potato Milkshake
It is often difficult to find a palatable use for purple sweet potatoes. At least that is my opinion. I have never found any of them to...
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sandhill1
- Sep 11, 2021
- 5 min
The Many Things We Can Learn From Spiders
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...
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sandhill1
- Aug 29, 2021
- 5 min
Constructing an Economical and Efficient Poultry Building
30 years of working on preservation and we finally have reached where we have all of our chickens, ducks and geese in better...
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sandhill1
- Apr 14, 2021
- 6 min
Choosing the best Tiller
I originally wrote this in early August 2020 but the Derecho changed the routine. I have since started using the tiller this Spring of...
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sandhill1
- Sep 15, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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sandhill1
- Mar 19, 2020
- 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...
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sandhill1
- Feb 29, 2020
- 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...
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sandhill1
- Feb 19, 2020
- 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...
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sandhill1
- Feb 18, 2020
- 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...
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sandhill1
- 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...
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sandhill1
- 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...
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sandhill1
- 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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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...
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sandhill1
- 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...
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sandhill1
- 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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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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sandhill1
- 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...
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