In this blog we are going to help with taking care of your chicks once they have hatched by lowering chick fatality. An average fatality % for chicks per hatch is 5- 10% depending on your level of knowledge and experience. A few losses are unavoidable however these tips should help minimize losses. The first […]
Myshire Farm Hatching Guide Thank you for choosing Myshire Farm for your coturnix hatching eggs! We have compiled a few tips to help you incubate your eggs and look after your newly hatched babies! Here is our recommendations. Now that your eggs have arrived we suggest you unpack the eggs and place them pointy side […]
CategoriesUncategorizedThe leaves are turning here in Ohio, and the night are getting cold. Thus I am forced to face the fact that winter will soon be here, like it or not. I am an “or not” person. The thought of tending to the animals in snow, or wind, or wind and snow sounds downright awful. […]
CategoriesUncategorizedSo your gunna be a quail parent….. Below is a short list of ideas to help you with incubating eggs and your new babies. Let eggs “rest” overnight after your receive them in the mail pointy side down before setting them in your incubator. This lets the air sack in the egg go in […]
CategoriesUncategorizedTips for a wood burning stove. When I moved into my house 5 years ago. I didn’t know what the large black box metal box was in the kitchen. I knew it was ugly, and it took up too much room. That space could be used for something practical like cabinet space or extra seating…Then […]
So today I received a pair of Honey Badger gardening gloves. At first they looked like a costume piece for wolverine, or perhaps cat woman. I must admit, I was a bit hesitant. My sons age 6 and 7 were the first to break them out of the bag. “These are sooo cool! Are they […]
CategoriesUncategorizedI have never had a lot of friends. Growing up homeschooled I only a few close friends, and I was completely satisfy with that. Into early adulthood, I was never the “social butterfly”. I had a few friends from work, or neighborhood acquaintances, but never any homestead friends. Now that we have moved out to […]
CategoriesUncategorizedSo as we all know, gardening is a hurry up and wait game. Hurry get your seeds in, wait forever until harvest. But now, as I am trying of making money on the homestead, have realized that people buy time. A seed packet that costs $3 and contains 25 seeds will equal 25 large plants that sell […]
CategoriesUncategorizedI recently had a request via craigslist for balut. To be perfectly honest I didn’t even know what they were requesting, I had to google it. This is what I learned. Balut is chicken or duck eggs that have been partially incubated so there is a small chick inside. It is then hardboiled and eaten, […]
Categorieslivestock UncategorizedWe hatched our first baby chukar. It was adorable. But at about half the size of a baby chicken, it seemed frail to begin with. It died 3 days after it hatched. Hence, I wish we had a good mother chukar. So what went wrong? Human error strikes again. The first ever egg was laid […]
