Our Life. Our Story

We are expanding our herd of goats this summer! Woohoo! So that means we need to get an entire new goat enclosure and area set up. We’ve...

New life on the Wilderstead this morning! Mother Clucker and Gertrude have been patiently sharing a nesting box sitting on eggs. We don’t...

A quick look at how we built our northern chicken coop and using the deep litter composting method in the coop to help generate a little...

Every spring, we invest in chickens to raise on our homestead. Some of these chickens will be added to our flock of laying hens, while...

This is our first year keeping chickens over winter in Manitoba. It gets quite cold here (to say the least) so it was very important to...

We lucked out with a weekend above freezing in the middle of January. We used one day to let the laying hens outside to stretch their...

Chickens are jerks. If they can poop on something they will; even if it holds their food or water. Every chicken feeder that we bought...