Nature's Heritage Farm

I think it's a lot more propaganda, poor literacy and purposeful misinformation being shared by media than it is willful ignorance.

Regenerative AG would help so much with this. Reduce land requirements for raising livestock, and increase soil health and biodiversity. They wouldn't need so much space.

He also seems to have voted for the crypto bill

Doubled their space and now the chicks have all the zoomies

A forestry picture, with a few branches of what may be service berry in the foreground - clusters of white flowers with narrow white petals on the flower seem to match.

I think I found service berry!! 😍😁

The camera peers in the side of an incubator. There are brown and yellow and black chicks all curled up on one another among their recently exited egg shells

Almost everyone is hatched, and tired and napping. 😍

The inside of an incubator, full of eggs. One or two have pips and zips, and 3 wet black chicks huddle together at the back.

Chicks are hatching!!

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

3 dark newborn kits snuggle in a cloud of fur inside a nest of hay.

A first time momma rabbit, white and brown, has a mouth full of hay. She's about to take it into the plastic box next to her to make a nest

A new momma rabbit 's nest. A big tunnel of hay with a pile of fur at the back

A dark room, with an egg sitting on a bright light. It lights up the inside of the egg so you can see the veins and the shadow of the embryo inside. It nearly fills the egg bc it's almost ready to hatch

All kinds of babies coming... Baby chicks due to hatch Thursday, a new rabbit litter Monday from Jenny and Danny, and another due any minute for Silence and Nardole

A collage of 2 photos. One shows a tiny brown chicken w white speckles laying fluffed out in a corner. The other shows the chicken, in the exact same pose but moved over, and the 3 eggs she had been laying on.

The Littlest Helper's tiny bantam game hen is a broody lil monster rn.

3 chairs meet underneath a dining table. On one is a black and white tuxedo cat. On the next chair, a red eyed white rabbit sits on a chair, tucking his head under to study her.

Danny found where the kitties hide to snuggle without him. 🤣

2 ferret Nation cages sit on the floor end to end. You can just see that the 2 short sides have half their wall removed where they meet. 3/4 is covered in fleece blanket, and the remaining 1/4 has a litter box, hay and water, and an adorable white rabbit checking it out. A shelf and a small set of drawers sit on top

The same cage as previously is seen from across the room. There's a desk on one side and a wall furnace on the other, and a dining table in front. The shelf on top holds school and art supplies.

Danny might be inside for a while bc he rocks. Made 2 ferret Nation cages into 1 and popped it behind the table. I kinda love it.

A wire puppy pen is set up on floor tiles. There are pink blankets on the floor inside it, a blue litter box in one corner near a hay rack, and a white rabbit eating sticks and ignoring the photographer and the open door completely.

Sat down to have a snack, & Danny was immediately pressing his face in the bars and standing on his back legs to sniff the door. Until the guilt made me open the door.

He then returned to eating his stick and exploring his litterbox, completely ignoring both me and the door. We're being trained. 🤣

It's one that's very with starting at the beginning and listening to back episodes too!

Behind the bastards is a favorite

The inside of the protected side of a rabbit hutch. A brown and white rabbit sits in front of a sideways plastic box, so that the top is open to the front. A cluster of 2 week old kits sit inside on a bed of hay, 4 white and one brown.

Had to turn Merry's nest box on its side bc the babies kept escaping and not being able to get in. She also squished one. And has since peed on them. She's feeding them well, but this whole hutch thing is clearly not her cup of tea.

That's too bad. Sounds like it would've been a great option. Good luck finding a meat share

Grown by, farmish, simply local, black farmers network (website), farm fresh, meat suite (? I remember seeing it somewhere...)

If all else fails, do a google search for "farm", "beef farm", "dairy farm" etc and see who nearby seems worth trying. I found some within an hr of Philadelphia that way.
And I had a list of apps here but blue sky ate it, so I'll BBS with that

That can be hard. It took me a while to find the best local farms/resources when we moved too. There's a few apps that track that kind of thing, although all the name escape me rn. Up here in northern NY there's no one on the apps, but in a city I bet they'd be useful. I'll try to look for them.

Is a bidet an option? I'm trying to convince hubby we need one. Also, there's quite a few "green" online TP options that might fit your needs. I still haven't dived down that rabbit hole. 😅

If you eat meat, and have the space, and ability, buying a 1/4 (or more) of a cow or pig is a great deal. Especially, look for a DAIRY farm, as they're usually cheaper but the beef is still excellent.

Are there particular foods you're struggling with sourcing? For me the hardest is all the baking.

A broken castor doe rabbit inspects a nestbox recently set up by human hands. It has hay, and you can see a pile of fur where the babies are laying snuggled up.

So.. it turns out Ashildr's kits were being fed by both mommas. And on Monday, Merry walled up her own kits and never went back. I ended up moving her and her remaining kits to a hutch to make sure she feeds them.

She is doing so now. Motherhood must be confusing. Poor girl.

A stone area in a living room has a giant dog kennel set up for a rabbit, a kids desk and a blue water bucket for said dog. A white rabbit is reaching up and over to drink from the water bucket.

A stone area in a living room. There's a big metal dog kennel with hay and rabbit accessories in it, and a litterbox next to it. A white rabbit lounges in front of the kennel.

A white rabbit in a kennel sticks his head out and down, eyes close and ears relaxed while he gets blissful ear pets.

Y'all.. we need scheduled posts. It's been a week! Danny had a scare, I think a bladder issue, and stopped eating for a couple days. Very lucky he pulled thru. But he came in for nursing, and now has to be a house bunny till it warms up. I don't think he minds.

Great name!!! Netflix is one of my favorites

A collage of 5 different rabbit kits laying in someone's lap. They are all small, eyes not opened, but their bellies are MASSIVE. Twice as wide as their torsos. One is laying belly up and their belly is tight as a balloon.

LOOK at these BELLIES!!! Photos taken before they should have had dinner... I swear, Merry MUST be helping Ashildr feed them. I've never seen such fat babies. Good thing they don't have to try to walk around all that milk. 🤣🤣🤣

You're welcome! And totally, go for it. Wasn't trying to ruin anything! If the breeder knows you're planning to put them in a tractor, and thinks it's a good plan, they would hopefully know best!

I'd totally have the corner on pet buns if I could teach them to beatbox... 🤔🤣

You're welcome!

And tractors definitely help reduce cocci risk. And I'm also super pro-tractor. It's just a factor to keep in mind, that sometimes it takes a couple generations of ground (and hay, grass) exposure to get that toughness back. 😁

Show stock and a lot of caged stock, even when raised to be hardy, often is more susceptible to things like coccidiosis that they can get from ground contact.

"Raising pastured rabbits for meat" by Nicki carangelo is really good. She talks about breeding for hardiness too.