The last few days has been really cold, like really cold. its been above freezing the last couple weeks but the last few days it dropped down to a meager 12*F. This morning I allowed Rossie and JoJo to have their date. I think he has been wanting it for some time now, so I'm hoping the deed is done and we have bunnies in about a month or so. we will probably breed the other two in about a month or so. The lady we obtained our bunnies from said that Rosie should produce up to 5 bunnies and the other two should produce up to 8 each. that's a lot of bunnies..
Sandi has named the other two bunnies, the bigger and friendlier of the two she has named Maggie and the other one Sassy. I have a lot i need to do with soon, such as building the new hutches and chicken coop... i need to get on it soon so that it is done but money has been a bit short and its time again to soon be paying our house payment. but He will provide for us as He always does. It is so Awesome to for God care for us enough to provide as he does!!
well guess I need to get finding things to do today, Happy Valentines Day and will be posting again soon!
from our little farmstead
~B
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Saturday, February 07, 2015
Spring Cleaning
Today has been warm and so we have been cleaning around our little farm. We have 2 existing barns on the property and we put our rabbits in one of them for now. The people before us that lived here had horses and didn't take care of the barn which was full of manure which was dried for the most part, so today we went out and cleaned the majority of it.
We cleaned out the rabbit hutches and feed them, as well as made sure everything was clean for them. I believe I will build all new hutches and design them so that they will be a lot easier to clean and give us better access to the rabbits as well.
We plan on also having chickens soon as well and I will need to start building the coops for them soon before we get them. I really cant wait to have fresh eggs all the time and cant wait to have our little farm become more and more self sustaining. some of the next things we are also planing on is getting other set ups for power as well. We get a lot of wind out here often so I am really thinking of putting in a couple windmills perhaps and possibly even some solar power. we have gotten our power down to about $10 or less per day and I'm thinking it will be even lower in the summer.
Today I also took my bike out (it was Christmas present from work for going to the Christmas party) and rode it to the post office which is about a mile from our house, so its not a long ride but was a nice one. the wind is only blowing today enough to make it a little hard to ride especially for some one as out of shape as me.. but at least I'm going to start getting back in shape by riding.
We cleaned out the rabbit hutches and feed them, as well as made sure everything was clean for them. I believe I will build all new hutches and design them so that they will be a lot easier to clean and give us better access to the rabbits as well.
We plan on also having chickens soon as well and I will need to start building the coops for them soon before we get them. I really cant wait to have fresh eggs all the time and cant wait to have our little farm become more and more self sustaining. some of the next things we are also planing on is getting other set ups for power as well. We get a lot of wind out here often so I am really thinking of putting in a couple windmills perhaps and possibly even some solar power. we have gotten our power down to about $10 or less per day and I'm thinking it will be even lower in the summer.
Today I also took my bike out (it was Christmas present from work for going to the Christmas party) and rode it to the post office which is about a mile from our house, so its not a long ride but was a nice one. the wind is only blowing today enough to make it a little hard to ride especially for some one as out of shape as me.. but at least I'm going to start getting back in shape by riding.
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