I have done a fair amount of traveling in my life. Just this year I have been to El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, The Caymans, The Netherlands, and Germany. During my travels, I am always impressed to see how households supplement their food and income by producing something for themselves. It could be said that [...]
Pointing to the Japanese practice of eating raw eggs with little to no consequence, Lisa Katayama questions whether American safety warnings may be exaggerated. “There’s a 1 in 20,000 chance that an egg might contain salmonella, according to the American Egg Board,” she writes, a risk she wonders whether people ought to be willing to [...]
We will never be sure if it was indeed a fox that caused Watson’s premature death, but that is our hypothesis. It seems awfully coincidental that two days after Bunny’s cardiac arrest, we discover that a fox has been lurking around the property.
Today this same fox has been apprehended. It is not that we have [...]
We think we might have found the creature who did in bunny, albeit indirectly. He’s been lurking in the shadows of the Piscataway Acres animal pens. Yesterday was the first human sighting of horrific Mr. Fox, though we are almost certain he was sighted before by Watson the rabbit. It is not unusual for rabbits [...]
and it sounds like she shares our poultry problem . But the article is primarily about Suzanne McMinn’s discovery of Nigerian Dwarf Goats and goats in general:
Then one day I received an e-mail from a reader of my blog. She lived nearby and she had Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats. Nigerian Dwarfs are miniature milkers that [...]
The backdoor creaks open. The backyard bleats in response. Clunky rubber boots thud down the deck steps. A widespread rustle in the woods rushes towards me. Heaving an orange, painter’s bucket, water sloshes on my side, on my water-resilient boots, in my water-resilient boots. Halfway to the barn, the wooded rustle catches up to me. [...]
I knew about the law of diminishing returns from my economics class, but never did I expect that it would be applied so brutally as it has been to my little farm.
Piscataway Acres began with a small flock of laying hens in a tall, white coop across the yard on the edge of the woods. [...]
I found this article to be very interesting. I am pleased that here at Piscataway Acres, we have three out of the five highly productive, low-stress animals. I am allergic to bees, but still, I do love honey… Perhaps something for the future?
Article can be found at:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/adventures/4331779.html