my best friend and his family

the other day I posted some pictures of my best friends camper and a lot of people seemed to enjoy it . I thought maybe some of you might enjoy seeing some of his homestead. I think he has some of the same goals and ideas as a lot of the great people I have met on this site. He and his family raise three garden patches and his lovely wife has many jars of food put away from the garden. They have their own chickens and goats , which his children milk and tend to before and after school. His wife makes several different kinds of cheese from the milk.. and they drink goats milk and use it for cereal eating.His mom lives with him and makes some of the best dishes of food from the garden and what they raise that you could ever imagine.They heat their entire house with wood,which my friend and his son cut split and stack.The children are very active in 4H and have gotten many awards. He is a very strong beleiver of the right to bear arms, just like many of the people on this site are. He has a shop and like most of you does a good deal of his own repairs. And to top it off and keep all of this somewhat on topic , he has a JD backhoe . I really admire him and his family and thought maybe some of you would like to meet another family with some of the same interests that many of you great people on this site have

Just great pictures of your friends .Thanks for posting em. LOU.

Thank You for the post about your friend and family. We have a lot of AWESOME folks in this world. Just wish the media would report on the good in people and not alawys the bad. Merle

It's nice to hear people can still be selfreliant and not need to run to wally word 3 times a day to buy more Chinese crap that isn't really needed just wanted

Great! Thanks for posting.Brings back some memories for sure. Wwhen I was young my dad and mom raised Leghorn Layers,Guernsey Dairy Cattle and Duroc Hogs on about 240 acres of good farm land.We never got electricity until about 1946,right after the war and all our water was by a windmill or hand pump.I don't remember cutting wood but I do remember Kentucky Wonder lump coal and the big chrome parlor stove we fed it to.

GREAT PIC'S NOW I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY OLD DOG KENNEL

Yep, the old dog kennel works great! Here is my 10 X 10 attached to the front of the barn. It looks pretty crowded, but they have plenty of room inside too. They just all came out to get their picture taken (they thought it was time to eat)I also suggest a cover of some kind to keep other birds out. I just threw a tree net over the cover and it works pretty well.


And here is another idea if you have layers. I built a frame out of mostly used lumber for a nesting area. I had gotten these plastic Coca Cola carrying cases (the ones that hold the 20oz. plastic bottles) for free and they make the perfect nesting box. Fill with hay, the chickens will make into a nest of their liking. The box slides in and out easily for egg gathering and the occasional cleaning and hay replacement.

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My Dad laid five-gallon buckets side by side on a board with the open end to the front, nailed a board a few inches up in the front, put some straw in them, and they made excellent nests. At cleaning time, pick the bucket up, dump out the old contents in the "tractor" manure spreader and reset it.

C.C. are looking for you,