Tag: Green
Block-A-Day 330 – Thanksgiving Basket
I thought what could be more appropriate than a big harvest basket. So Imagine this basket full of all your favorite fresh veggies.
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Block-A-Day 329 – The Wether Goat
A wether goat (castrated male) can be a good pet. They can learn to pull a small cart and my father always had a wether goat with his stud horses. Something about that relationship makes the stud calmer and easier to manage.
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Block-A-Day 327 – Ducks In A Row
When my children were small I had a few additional children that spent their days with me. We had to go grocery shopping once a week. I would line everybody up and tell them they were baby ducks and I was a mama duck. It worked.
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Block-A-Day 326 – Super Duck
So here’s to you, Clark Kent of the duck world. Not sure if this fellow struts around the barnyard solving problems or touting his super-ness, but he’s sure a funny little delusional duck.
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Block-A-Day 325 – The Silver Appleyard Duck
I’m going to call this duck a Silver Appleyard duck. They are a nice dual breed duck, producing tender meat and plentiful eggs. Here are 8 reasons to keep ducks:
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Block-A-Day 321 – The Chicks
They have had nothing to eat or drink since hatching so for the first thing they are gently taken out of the box and their beaks are put in water so they have to take a little. All the farmhands help with this part and even Farmhand 4 is gentle enough.
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Block-A-Day 320 – The Rooster
I think roosters can be beautiful creatures. They can also be mean, aggressive, and hard on the hens. We don’t have roosters at Sisu Farm. That means, of course, that we don’t have fertilized eggs.
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Block-A-Day 318 – The Tractor
The leaping deer trademark has represented John Deere for 140 years. The slogan “Nothing Runs Like A Deere” was created for a snowmobile and has been running ever since.
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Block-A-Day 313 – The Dream Barn
At the back of the barn is a room gleaming with stainless steel counters and sinks where cream is separated and small batches of specialty butters are made.
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Block-A-Day 308 – The Farrowing Shed
Food is available for mama and an area is provided for piglets. A corner is blocked off with an opening piglets can get through but mama can’t. It’s equipped with heat lamps to keep the little ones warm.
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Block-A-Day 306 – The Pasture Pen
Pasture pens are open-air structures that have a roof covering 3/4 of the top surface. Half of the side surface is also solid. The remaining surfaces are covered with chicken wire.
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Block-A-Day 299 – The Round Bales
We’re going to attach forks to our tractor bucket so that we can lift the bales and feed them to the cows. It should save some time and labor for winter feeding.
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