tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31661246871647872662024-03-14T23:41:27.221-07:00Homestead RootsHomestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-40361010933932235552013-05-15T13:26:00.000-07:002013-05-15T13:26:00.267-07:00Appleyard ducklings have hatched!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-58278153256255617352013-05-13T15:12:00.001-07:002013-05-13T15:12:19.805-07:00Incubating duck eggs 28 days, then little ducklings hatch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I absolutely adore this time of year! Our little homestead is full of life!! Baby goats, baby chicks and now baby ducks! We started incubating 28 duck eggs a month ago and we get to enjoy these little feathery friends in our backyard!</div>
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-32395282536129054772013-04-29T15:24:00.000-07:002013-04-29T15:24:15.978-07:00Our First Swarm has arrived! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-70486963212778962342013-04-15T18:24:00.002-07:002013-04-15T18:24:50.422-07:00Poppy had her Babies!!! Quadruplets!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our first set of kids are here!! Poppy did not top her record from last year of having 5 babies, but we are absolutely thrilled with the adorable 4 she gave us this year! 3 of these precious babies are little doelings and one is a little buckling. I had stayed home from church since our little George was sick. George and I spent all day outside with Poppy and about 3 minutes before she was ready to start pushing, Bryan, Henry, and Addie got home! Bryan had enough time to change out of his dress pants and shirt, but didn't even have a chance to get off his dress socks ;) Needless to say, Addies church dress needed to be washed!!</div>
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We have had requests for a video of the birth...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUbE6ry8qk">so here it is</a>! Warning: Not for those who dont wanting to see a little TMI!! Especially as she progresses into the birth of baby #2, she decided to move RIGHT beside the camera. My sister was hilarious as she watched this video..."Oooooooooooh, oooooooooh, AAAAA..." </div>
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Poppy is very loud while birthing. So loud that the neighbors all heard and ended up comin on over with all the kids and grandkids to see the event! </div>
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-77630247991653780742013-03-12T17:52:00.000-07:002013-03-12T17:52:26.404-07:00"Quack Quack" for Appleyard Ducks!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I could not be more excited!!! I have been wanting ducks for years!! These fine feathered friends joined our backyard homestead this week and are already bringing beautiful duck eggs into my kitchen :) I have been searching for good pure bred backyard duck and have settled on the Appleyards. They are a fabulous multipurpose breed (eggs and meat) and absolutely beautiful. We purchased these 4 hens and 1 drake from a local farmer who was selling off her flock. Yes, we have a drake....so hopefully we will be hatching some little ducklings in our incubator soon!!!!!</div>
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Meet the little crew!!!</div>
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-74445216183954023602013-01-04T12:50:00.001-08:002013-03-12T17:35:38.459-07:00Baby Chick Hatching in Genesis Hova Bator Incubator<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-32561429904458883362013-01-01T17:33:00.000-08:002013-03-12T17:34:18.337-07:00Day old baby chicks hatched January 1st Happy New Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We tried our hand at hatching eggs and it was delightful!! We didn't have the best hatch rate due to not checking the incubator temperature and humidity with an extra thermometer. But we did get 5 adorable baby chicks out of the adventure!!</div>
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I put the chicks in a cardboard box which we cut out a window opening for the kids to observe the cute balls of fluff! We trained the baby chicks not to jump out of the little opening... lol, just kidding! We covered the opening with plexiglass which we just duck taped on the reverse side. It was absolutely perfect for the kids to watch the chicks without being able to reach their hands in a touch them...constantly! I also taped a thermometer to the window so we could keep track of the temperature. This was one job that Henry (my oldest, 6 years old) was in charge of! He was responsible to make sure the temperature was at a certain point each week. He did a great job and it was very easy way to introduce temperature tracking into our homeschool discussion.</div>
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-55412698575850891962012-10-06T12:54:00.000-07:002012-10-06T12:54:00.697-07:001 week old baby chicks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-58114869292786423052012-09-29T12:56:00.000-07:002012-09-29T12:56:00.393-07:00Baby Chicks are here!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-38390145642203209552012-09-27T12:48:00.001-07:002012-09-27T12:48:16.851-07:00Baby Chick Feeder DIY Super Easy Works Great!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We have more baby chicks here on our little farm and they sure do eat alot! Its quite frustrating to constantly be filling their food and then realize its all out again! I love these little feeders that hook to a mason jar but I do not like that you can only fill them with 1 quart of feed at a time. They take up minimal floor space on the cage but are quite a hassle if you have a lot of birds. I kept trying to think of a way to make them easier to fill (from the outside of the cage) as well as easier to keep full! I took our metal feed tray with me to Lowes and found all the lovely parts to make it work like it does in my mind!!</div>
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Total Cost: Under $20! I also have half of the PVC pipe left to make another feeder as well as plenty of caulking for other projects! Or you could make 2 of these <i>(by purchasing an additional feeder tray($3.50 and an additional PVC Coupling $5)</i> for $29.</div>
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Start by crimping, hammering, or pinching your ring so its completely flat <i>(this looks like its got extra crimps, but they are pushed to the opposite side so as to flatten the inside)</i><br />
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Now its time for the caulking. Apply it generously so you get a good firm seal</div>
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Wipe clean any goopy extra that has smashed out. </div>
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Now cut your PVC pipe if you want. I wanted to cut mine so I could make 2 and I wanted them short so my kids can easily fill them. If they were 5 feet tall, they would hold alot more feed, but the kids wouldnt be able to do all the upkeep. So decide what your needs are and modify as needed!</div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xkpTQBgPQU8/UGSkYvvbktI/AAAAAAAACy8/U9pr-p_HG50/s1600/IMG_3862.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xkpTQBgPQU8/UGSkYvvbktI/AAAAAAAACy8/U9pr-p_HG50/s320/IMG_3862.JPG" width="320" /></a>They LOVE it!! They are super curious and it doesnt even have any feed poured in it yet!</div>
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All gathered around and eatin away! I have our feeder right in the middle of the chicks cage. I also have the whole cage up off the ground an inch or so to help keep them nice and clean. I use cheap plastic table clothes <i>(2 for $1)</i> to cover the floor, makes for SUPER easy clean up! I clean it as needed. I can also lift this cage quite easily and set them outside on the ground to get some good outdoors time. This makes for super easy cleanup, just by moving them! They will only be in this cage for a few weeks. In which we will increase their outdoors time till they are ready to scratch, run, play, and defend themselves outside.<br />
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Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-5778109824874526982012-09-08T09:20:00.001-07:002012-09-27T12:49:00.593-07:00Feeding Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We have our yard divided into 4 sections. The garden area which is also where the bee houses reside, the chicken and compost area, the goat area and then the yard and play area. </div>
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In the far back corner of the yard we have the chicken coop and hen area. It is connected to the compost area so they can constantly be turning and working the compost pile. When we put all the hay from the goat area back there, those girls will work for days getting every last bug, weed, and seed out. They also get any and all food and garden scraps as well as a generous (thanks to Addie) supply of veggies, bugs, worms, and feed. This area is also right next to the garden so we open up and connect the two areas during the winter so the chickens can get out any and all weeds and bugs. Occasionally we do let the chickens and goat all out of their areas (under supervision) for a "walk about" through the yard and garden. The goats sure can tear out some weeds in the garden real quick and the chickens have at the bugs! But if they arent watched closely every single tomato will be gone quite quickly! In between the chicken and goat houses is the garage. The goat house is small and low to the ground (since they are little mini goats). The goats have quite a bit of space and in the middle of their run is the milking barn. This is where all the feed, hay, and any animal supplies are stored. </div>
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</div>Homestead Rootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494488367387092714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166124687164787266.post-69199731765781196612012-07-13T07:46:00.000-07:002012-07-13T07:46:37.024-07:00Peach and her babies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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First, I would like to say that I am quite gullible! I will believe pretty much anything Bryan tells me, so of course YES he does trick me sometimes and YES I do believe him! We ordered a queen bee for one of our colonies. Bryan put her into the top bar hive and what happened next brought on quite an interesting dialogue!</div>
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Bryan: "Our new queen is Piping"</div>
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Abby: "Ok....wait, What!?"</div>
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Bryan: "Virgin Queen bees will make a noise <i>(insert his impersonation of the noise here)</i> when they enter a new colony and its called Piping".</div>
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Abby: (<i>laughing, thinking this is really a stretch for him to make this up!</i>) "WHAAAT!?!? Are you messing with me? Cause I really thing you are messing with me!?"</div>
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Bryan: "No Im serious. Shes doing it right now!"</div>
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Abby: "WHAAAT!" (<i>while running for the camera!</i>) </div>
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Ok folks...As if bees could be any more amazing, they go off and do something like this!! </div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee#Piping">Piping</a>: <i>"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Piping describes a noise made by virgin and mated queen bees during certain times of the virgin queens' development. Fully developed virgin queens communicate through vibratory signals: "quacking" from virgin queens in their queen cells and "tooting" from queens free in the colony, collectively known as piping. A virgin queen may frequently pipe before she emerges from her cell and for a brief time afterwards. Mated queens may briefly pipe after being released in a hive.</span></i></div>
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<i>Piping is most common when there is more than one queen in a hive. It is postulated that the piping is a form of battle cry announcing to competing queens and the workers their willingness to fight. It may also be a signal to the worker bees which queen is the most worthwhile to support.</i></div>
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<i>The piping sound is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%E2%99%AF_(musical_note)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="G♯ (musical note)">G<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode';">♯</span></a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(musical_note)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="A (musical note)">A<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode';">♮</span></a>. The adult queen pipes for a two-second pulse followed by a series of quarter-second toots.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee#cite_note-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup> The queens of Africanized bees produce more vigorous and frequent bouts of piping."</i></div>
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Bryan was able to get several good videos of her piping...listen careful, its quite impressive!!</div>
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One of the swarms that Bryan has caught this year is without a Queen...they were not making a queen for themselves, so we ordered a Queen bee to add to the colony. We purchased her online from <a href="http://www.packagebeesforsale.com/store.php/categories/queen-bees-for-sale-northern-california-solano-napa-yolo-sacramento-dixon-buy">QueenBeesForSale.com</a>. We have been very pleased with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniolan_honey_bee">Corniolan </a>bees so we wanted a Corniolan queen for that hive.<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Corniolans: "It is favored among beekeepers for several reasons, not the least being its ability to defend itself successfully against insect pests while at the same time being extremely gentle in its behavior toward beekeepers. These bees are particularly adept at adjusting worker population to nectar availability. It relies on these rapid adjustments of population levels to rapidly expand worker bee populations after nectar becomes available in the spring, and, again, to rapidly cut off brood production when nectar ceases to be available in quantity. It meets periods of high nectar with high worker populations and consequently stores large quantities of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Honey">honey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Pollen">pollen</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> during those periods. They are resistant to some diseases and parasites that can debilitate hives of other subspecies."</span></i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBIcrFvST_EQgV6EEMwYGhZh6N0kkJ9f4pwjcOeJIpKFaFgfUKppOXY_lxrRSqymnhiNxsjbD4YOgipxJyd9yEf1Fhxwy3hTaXsYMiBdQZruBHkeSk70Ei_MzO9zQEueG3-CoRY24Jk98y/s1600/IMG_1214.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBIcrFvST_EQgV6EEMwYGhZh6N0kkJ9f4pwjcOeJIpKFaFgfUKppOXY_lxrRSqymnhiNxsjbD4YOgipxJyd9yEf1Fhxwy3hTaXsYMiBdQZruBHkeSk70Ei_MzO9zQEueG3-CoRY24Jk98y/s320/IMG_1214.JPG" width="320" /></a>She arrived overnight UPS in a hard case along with a few nurse bees to accompany her on the journey. I was so excited when the UPS truck pulled up...I met him in the front yard and said "Oh yeah! Is this my bee!" To which he paused and said "Your What!?". Oh oops, you didnt know you had some bees riding around next to you all day! I just said Thank you and went on inside.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BtvVQF3lr2o/T51m8GE7YfI/AAAAAAAACc4/RdbvoTtVjjQ/s1600/IMG_1218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BtvVQF3lr2o/T51m8GE7YfI/AAAAAAAACc4/RdbvoTtVjjQ/s320/IMG_1218.JPG" width="320" /></a>This container was inside the UPS mailer...so I opened it on up to check and make sure everyone arrived safely and unharmed. The while tube coming out of the top of the cage is full of soft candy. This way the bees from the new colony can eat through the candy to release the queen slowly into the hive. </div>
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Here she is in the hive getting to know her new colony. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gEesXmG0B6k/T51nJXe7Z2I/AAAAAAAACdA/bAjg3fcEk48/s1600/IMG_1228.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gEesXmG0B6k/T51nJXe7Z2I/AAAAAAAACdA/bAjg3fcEk48/s320/IMG_1228.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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Does it get any cuter than this!? I set up these logs for the little ones to play on and they sure do love it! They are only 2 weeks old and just full of energy! I love the sound of their little hoofs on the logs and the walkway. </div>
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After I had Henry and Addie the time quickly approached when they were onto eating food. I bought the baby food at the store and quickly found myself spending a small fortune on this tiny little person who hardly ate anything!! But for some reason I was fully convinced that if I fed them anything other than the food provided by Gerber that my child wouldn't develop properly... Fast forward a few years and now we have George. First off I dont have it in my grocery budget to afford all those tiny little jars of mush and also I have found too much research on how it really isnt that good for your baby either. </div>
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I started George on food at 9 months old and he progressed from the blended food right into everything else quite quickly! Within a month or two he had plenty of teeth that I was just feeding him small cut up pieces of whatever we were having for dinner. I remember it being so much more of a challenge when dealing with all the blended jars of baby food for Henry and Addie. </div>
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