High Today – 76
Low Tonight – 41 !!

Livestock
Chickens– the Cornish Cross chicks may have stabilized. We didn’t lose any today. Total losses may be at 8/53. We replaced the rubberized hardware cloth with regular metal and that seemed to help reduce the mess from waste a bit.

Goats – Emma is quite used to being milked now, although we suspect that the kids, who are still housed with her at night, are getting more than we are. Currently the small supply of goat milk is going to the pigs, who are quite happy with their organic diet of rice, and our own veggies and goat milk!

Rabbits – loving the parsley greens once or twice a day! We’re hoping Fluffy has bred again – 28 days, we’ll see.

Feed – purchased Organic Scratch Grains from Tractor Supply.

Garden – waiting for the temps to break a bit. Too hot for most crops still, although we have been sharing longevity spinach all summer with the ducks, who love it scattered on the pond. The rabbits are happy that the parsley flourishes in heat…that’s heat, not sun. see post

Food – continuing to harvest kefir for smoothies. Ray has had an allergic reaction to something and has cut out the kefir to see if it is related to that…we’re hoping not. We continue to drink smoothies every morning, but his are now kombucha-based…still yummy!

Meat Birds – we will eat our last butchered Cornish from last Feb this week. The supply (25) lasted about six months, which is why we purchased 50 birds this time. see post

Happy Homesteading,
T.