Working On the Farm – Projects

As you can imagine working on the farm creates an environment where many projects are needed.  I have to build a barn which then turns to extensions on the barn.  Houses for each group of animals where 3 sides are insulated from the cold or heat depending on the season.  Kids born in the winter need a warm place to grow up.   Kids born in the summer time need a cool place to hid in the heat of the day.

I have to build places for feed and milking stands, milking barns.  Setting up a milking barn that will pass grade-a state regulations so that I can sell my milk.

I have to build my own Storage Sheds for farm equipment and tools.

Various Projects:

• Goat Houses
• Horse Stalls
• Grain and Feed storage
• Storage Sheds
• Tool Sheds
• Milk Barns
• Duck Houses
• Chicken Houses
• Dog and Cat houses
• Fencing projects
• Repair projects

There are many projects that arise from having a small mini farm.  Our farm is not one of those high production farm.  We live on a small 2 ac lot with a handful of animals.   About 30 ducks or so,  Ton of Chickens running around many of them inherited from wild chickens let loose by someone and the chickens found us to harvest there food which after I get my chicken barn fixed, sometime at night when the darn chickens cant escape they will get captured and placed in the barn.  I hate chicken poop all over the place.

My ducks come out when I feed them and they are very well trained.  All I have to do is point them in the right direction and they go home.

My Tree Ducks take a little more coaching but they too are learning the go home technique.  I love the tree ducks even more than the regular ducks.  They make such quiet noises and bob there heads back and forth when they get excited.  And the always get exited after I put fresh feed and water in their pens.

The tree ducks can fly high but usually only fly slightly higher than your waist.  They have no reason to fear me or my wife.  We can walk right up to them and they don’t run or fly away.  I can even get some of them to eat right out of my hands.

The tree ducks though my favorite are being raised for meat.  So the new hatching’s will go into meat production.  However during their growing up time they will have a safe place to live though it may be short.  I will still want to grow my safe ducks a bit larger as I need more to make more babies.  And these ducks are very quiet and friendly.

The ducks do a good job of eating all those horrible pest, grasshoppers and other bugs.  And they do a great job of warding off cats and roosters or other chickens.  Though the chicken beak is pointed the duck one seems to be more threatening.

To keep all of these animals I have to have a safe place for them to live and to keep them separated from the other animals on the farm.  As I am sure that my dogs would love to play with the ducks and chickens, though I would then have no more ducks or chickens.

The goats love to steal food from the chickens and ducks, corn is so yummy.  But to a goat this type of food is not really good for them.  Its too hot.  During the winter time its not as bad, but during the summer time the goats should not eat any corn.

Wood Working Projects.

There are many wood working projects that come up while I am working on the farm and I have learned that I am not the greatest carpenter having built a few of my own projects that need some fine tuning.  I have found a resource on the internet which has great plans to help with various wood working projects.

You will find information about working with wood under my new tab WoodWorking

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