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AliciaNak
True Blue Farmgirl
405 Posts
Alicia
Elko
Nevada
USA
405 Posts |
 Posted - Feb 25 2010 : 11:14:31 AM
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Here's our little patch in Northern Nevada. It's 3.3 acres, and mostly compacted, dried out horse pasture. But we're trying to change that. We have 5 horses, 7 chickens and a roo, a turkey hen, 4 dogs, a cat, and pond fish living in a horse trough on the porch, waiting patiently for their pond. 
 This is last years green-ness.
 Full horses taking a nap in what's left of a large bale (1/2 ton) This is our "bottom pasture". I try to nurture up the wee bit of grass that comes through. Mostly it's where I ride and work horses. We talk of punching a well (it's a seperate lot, so it should be ok) and planting something. Clover and grasses? Right now it gets taken over by a nasty weed called Curly Dock. Very suited to the desert, those orange roots go down for feet!! And it comes back like no other.
 The turkeys were sooo fun! You should have seen them playing in the sprinkler with the boys on those HOT summer days.
 The chickens trekking back down to the garden, their winter home, to see if I left any goodies for them. We're hoping that the addition of the straw and bird manure will give our soil a boost. Ok, we know it will, as we have heavy heavy clay soil.
 Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com |
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KathyC
True Blue Farmgirl
583 Posts
Kathy
Gastonia
NC
USA
583 Posts |
Posted - Feb 25 2010 : 12:42:53 PM
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Alicia,
Thanks for sharing your pictures - it's nice to see where you live. We are thinking of moving out to the country (I'm REALLY hoping). The house we live in has been home to my husbands family since 1936 but we have 5 nice acres a little south of here and also 5 acres in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains. We want a few chickens, a donkey and maybe a milk goat.
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
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Posted - Feb 25 2010 : 1:09:50 PM
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I love the pics of the turkeys. Nice place you have there.
Forget buns of steel, I'd rather have buns of cinnamon!
Farmgirl #680! |
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AliciaNak
True Blue Farmgirl
405 Posts
Alicia
Elko
Nevada
USA
405 Posts |
Posted - Feb 25 2010 : 1:44:02 PM
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Thank you Lessie Louise. The turkeys were a blast. If you were hanging out on the grass they wanted to be too.
Kathy-Hope you get to move out to the country. I had a few goats, just for fun, but my fencing isn't set for goats. They were in a fenced in pen, which they were constantly trying to break out of, and when I did let them out to eat weeds and such the first thing they would do is jump on my car! And then run for the hay stack. They have quite the personalities, so I'd consider getting more, as long as my fences were set up to keep them out of areas I didn't want them in!
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com |
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farmmilkmama
True Blue Farmgirl
2027 Posts
Amy
Central MN
USA
2027 Posts |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Feb 26 2010 : 10:15:36 AM
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Alicia, you have a beautiful place, too. Don't ya just love clothes on the line blowing in the breeze? It looks very peaceful there.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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maggie14
True Blue Farmgirl
6784 Posts
Hannah
Washington
USA
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Posted - Feb 26 2010 : 2:22:46 PM
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Thank you so much for sharing your farm with us Alicia!! It's beautiful!!
Hugs,
Channah
Friendship is not something that can be bought, it is earned. |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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Posted - Feb 26 2010 : 2:28:01 PM
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It looks beautiful! Can't wait for my own mini farm! Thank you so much for sharing and I love the turkey pics too =)
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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AliciaNak
True Blue Farmgirl
405 Posts
Alicia
Elko
Nevada
USA
405 Posts |
Posted - Mar 16 2010 : 08:13:14 AM
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The new haystack. I love looking out my window and seeing that! Living in the desert, where grazing for the horses is mostly non existent most of the year, that stack is security to me!
And the chickens like it too.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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LakeOntarioFarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
933 Posts
Brenda
North Rose
NY
USA
933 Posts |
Posted - Mar 16 2010 : 08:17:48 AM
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What a great place! You must really be enjoying it!
I love that last picture of the chicken in the haystack with the egg, lol, do you have to go on a hunt to find the eggs there?! :)
Brenda
FarmGirl # 711
Nothing we achieve in this world is achieved alone. It is always achieved with others teaching us along the way. Lee J. Colan
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paradiseplantation
True Blue Farmgirl
1277 Posts
julie
social springs community
Louisiana
USA
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Posted - Mar 16 2010 : 08:25:40 AM
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Alicia, that is a lovely place! Thanks for sharing!
from the hearts of paradise... |
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AliciaNak
True Blue Farmgirl
405 Posts
Alicia
Elko
Nevada
USA
405 Posts |
Posted - Mar 16 2010 : 08:38:29 AM
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Yep Brenda, they've abandoned the nest box in favor of the haystack. Which is fine. The haystack is closer to the house, so there less chance of an egg being dropped. And that pocket in the hay goes deep, so I keep a child sized rake right there to pull them to the front. 6 to 7 eggs a day, I find in the hay! (the kids are doing Dr. Suess stuff at school this week, so that rhyme fits right in!)
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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herblady55
True Blue Farmgirl
3470 Posts
Judy
Louisville
Ohio(Stark Co)
USA
3470 Posts |
Posted - Mar 21 2010 : 6:32:04 PM
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I love the pics of the chickens in the hay. Chickens can just make theirselves at home anywhere, can't they? hahaha I like that other pic of them running towards the garden too! Nothing says "Farm" like chickys!
Sister-chick# 905(Oct.7th2009)
Judy
Hugs&Squeezles!
I am not contained between my hat and my boots! -Walt Whitman- |
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AliciaNak
True Blue Farmgirl
405 Posts
Alicia
Elko
Nevada
USA
405 Posts |
Posted - Mar 23 2010 : 4:40:45 PM
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Mrs. T has started laying eggs! WHooo Hoooo! She doesn't know it, but she has saved her butt (and breast, thighs, wings) from the stew pot. I told Mike if she didn't start laying, and didn't accept the turkey poults due to come in the end of April, that we could eat her. That's why we got her in the first place. But these eggs are huge! even next to our already large chicken eggs.
This is today's find, number 2 and 3 for Mrs. T.
And I think she'll be a great foster mom. She seems like she's starting to get a little nesty/broody minded, and she's definitely lonely.
Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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debtea2
True Blue Farmgirl
1853 Posts
deborah
nutley
nj
USA
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Posted - Mar 23 2010 : 5:47:15 PM
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wow those are some might fine eggs i guess she heard you and figured she better get going
nice hen house too..lol
you should use the picture as a postcard its too cute
lots of luck
deborah
inch by inch we find our way
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
4562 Posts |
Posted - Mar 24 2010 : 05:36:36 AM
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Alicia, thanks for sharing. Your little piece of earth looks marvelous. Your chickens in the hay are the cutest. It's nice to see different areas of the country. Wisconsin looks very different from Nevada. DH and I are looking for our 10-40 acres and it's nice to see our options.
Thanks for sharing!
Why not go out on a limb, that's where all the fruit is! "Mark Twain"
http://studiodiphotosite.shutterfly.com/
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Mar 24 2010 : 06:44:51 AM
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Hooray for Mrs. T! Great pics, Alicia. Love the haystack chickens.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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lindyfran
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
LINDY
shelton
WA
USA
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Posted - Mar 24 2010 : 10:01:17 AM
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Great Pictures..how exactly did you post them?, I am trying w no luck..I followed directions  ..ps-Any one interested in joining our Sweet little Farm community in washington? pictures coming, we have a farm home group home.
Lady who owns a farm that wants it to be nurtured,cared for & a real working farm |
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