Hancock's Urban Homestead
We have some family members that have a larger farm than ours with some cows. Luna got to visit and we got to see some of her herding instincts. She was chicken at first but once Jon walked out with her she got some courage and was trying to heard them together.
Free-ranging chickens is one of those personal choices that the chicken farmer needs to decide. We are excited to be able to free-range our chickens it makes them feel more like pets than just a source of eggs. But to some they just wanted them to be a source of eggs or a meat source.
Here we are spring 2020 and it’s our favorite time of year. Seeing everything bud and grow. We spend a good amount of time between March and June planting seeds and start them in the green house. This Year Gari Jo spent a good amount of time getting things started, so we are excited to
So being the tech geek that I am, I wanted a way to open and close the chicken run via our phones. Well it took a little over a year for me get motivated and complete it, but now the code is in place the app is on our phones and we can remotely open
It’s 2019 and time for spring cleaning! We started with the greenhouse, over the winter we end up using it as a storage building, So if we want to use it we got to clean it. This year we decided that it was time to change things up so this year we went with
Ok so last years we were so excited because we found a rototiller for $30 at a garage sale that worked. I know rite, one that worked for that price…. Well after tilling up a patch to plant our blueberries and didn’t use the tiller for the rest of the season. So now it’s spring
Welcome back! We are excited to try raised beds this year. We are hoping that the placement and new soil will maximize our crops this year. Why Raised beds? The soil is able to remain fluffy allowing for roots to go deep. Maximum Sunlight: We wanted to put our corn and other vegetables in an
I have had many people ask about the cameras we use, so I decided to post what we use and why. So here we go… Why we use cameras in our chicken run and chicken coop? Overall this is simple, We love our chickens. They are more like pets and at this time we don’t
Tweedledee’s sister is Tweedledum so we officially have Tweedledum and Tweedledee. This chicken is vocal she will let you know when you NEED to give her treats, and she has no problems trying to jump in the can with the treats while you are getting them out, she is also known to take things out
This is Tweedledum, she got this name because she will keep her distance and is last to get any kind of treats like she doesn’t know whats going on or that you just threw out a bunch of mealworms. she will look at you with a blank expression like she has no clue what is
