Preface: We got our first hens last year and quickly found out that at times, the hens will peck and eat the eggs they produce…. » read more
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Fencing: Part 2
We left off the last fencing post after setting all of our main posts, brace posts, horizontals, and tying them all tight with twitch wire, then setting all of the t-posts in between. The last 3 days have been a learning experience stringing 4 strands of barb wire, 5 in the very back along the… » read more
Fencing for the newcomers
If you have never put up livestock fences, you are missing a lot… of hardships, that is. The kids and Jaime decided we had to have ponies, and a few cows for meat and, maybe, extra milk. So we set about planning out some fences to keep the animals in and varmints out…. » read more
