Tag Archives: Suburban Homestead
We’re practically self-sufficient at this point
I’m completely joking about self-sufficiency, we’re no where near that and not even shooting for it. But this is damn eggs-citing! (Haha, punny.) Anyways, we found our first egg on Thurdsay after work, and we weren’t quite sure who layed … Continue reading
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Chickens at Almost 8 Weeks Old
It’s high time for an update on our chickens, or “the girls” as we like to call them around here.
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The Chickens’ Day Out
It finally warmed up and dried out enough this weekend to give the chickens a test run in their coop. We pulled it over a row of garden that we haven’t planted yet, after confirming that the young fava bean … Continue reading
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What a Difference a Week Makes
I’m shocked at how much they’ve grown since last week. If we had a digital scale I bet we could confirm my suspicion that they’ve doubled in size in just a week. Their feathers growing in make them look a … Continue reading
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Give me cute and fluffy, girls!
We had a photo shoot with the girls yesterday and they proved to be quite photogenic. Surprisingly, they run all around in their box, but on the table they just stay put and huddle together mostly.
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Something exciting happened today…
We got our chicks! There are 4 of them, two Black Australorps and two Buff Orpingtons. They are about 5 days old and this is not a great picture, but they are REALLY cute. More to come on the new … Continue reading
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Butchering Day
Last fall we got news that the couple who ran a farm that we’d been buying eggs and pork from for about 3 years had decided to pack it in and close the farm. It was a bummer for us … Continue reading
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Sauerkraut
Who would’ve thought that I’d ever make from scratch such a hard-core Germanic food as sauerkraut (which by the way, in German just means sour cabbage). But it turns out that sauerkraut is amazingly easy to make, and filled with … Continue reading
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Chicken Stock
Hubby and I baked a whole chicken last night, always the beginning of a delicious journey as the carcass is turned into stock, which is then turned into some kind of soup. (I’m not the only one who loves the … Continue reading
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