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Raise Your Own

How to Easily Walk Your Mini Pig

April 24, 2018

Are you looking for a real-life look at what it is like to walk your mini pig? Can you walk a mini pig on a leash with a dog? Learn the words I use to train my mini pigs to walk on a leash successfully.  One of the most popular pig posts I have on …

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6 Things You Must Know Before Getting Ducks

April 6, 2018

If chicks get you smiling, wait until you see ducklings! They are adorable, and watching them splash in the water the first time will have your heart swooning for more. Ducks are a great addition if you already have chickens; ours have always gotten along just fine. Our ducks share a chicken coop with four …

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VIDEO: I’m Making Over Our Outdated Kitchen & Barn Building Progress!

April 1, 2018

Hey Friends! We’ve lived in our farmhouse for two years now and the kitchen cabinet color is starting to bring me down! I knew that there were other priorities in the house, but now it’s time. We aren’t going to do a full gut right now in the kitchen, mainly because my husband is building …

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Farm Life Vlog Day 2: DIY Barn Building Progress & Kittens

March 26, 2018

Hey Friends! So we had a very productive weekend. Great progress was made in our barn and we have five new additions to the farm. The sun was shining which means our dog and pig got to run and play together. Check out our brand new Vlog below! ( If you missed our first post …

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How to Get Perfect Fresh Hard Boiled Eggs

March 26, 2018

When we first started raising our own chickens, my husband and I was excited about fresh eggs, even more, hard-boiled eggs. We love eating these for a snack, throwing in a salad, and deviled eggs. We gathered up our eggs from outside and placed them in a pan to boil. Fifteen minutes later, we put the …

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15 Inspiring Reasons Why Your Kids Should Raise Chickens

March 22, 2018

Are your kids just starting to ask you for a pet?  Maybe they are just getting to the age where they want to be responsible for something cute and furry, but you are shaking your head thinking- “Do I want to be responsible for something else?” When we first got chickens, I was amazed at …

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What you Need to Do When Someone Steals from Your Farmstand

October 19, 2017

The thing with life for us is we tend to let our excitement lay out the path before us. We get caught up in a moment and go with the saying, “We will figure it out as we go.”   Sometimes in life, that’s a great thing. Other times, it can be troublesome. Or can …

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6 Fun Tips to Sell Eggs From Your Home

August 24, 2017

Did you get the chicken itch? You know when you start out with just six chicks, they grow, and all of a sudden you have the urge to add variety to your flock? I know we’ve been there. When we moved to our farmhouse just over a year ago, we got that chicken itch. We …

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15 Frugal Household Items You Can Use For Your Chickens

May 29, 2017

This isn’t called the Frugal Farm Girl for anything. We are cheap/frugal with EVERYTHING we do, guys, including our chickens. Sometimes I think it is a curse; I am reminded how powerful and a blessing it is in this season of life. Our Frugal blood had us pay off all our student loans, credit card, …

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How to Build a Mini Pig Pen Using Pallets in Under 60 minutes

March 15, 2017

Are you wondering how to build a pig pen out of pallets? The cheapest way I found is to use free pallets. This is the only way we build an affordable pig pen on our homestead. We love our mini pigs, but all pigs can use this simple pig enclosure. The day we drove home …

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Why We Choose to Free Range Chickens- Even After a Raccoon Attack

March 2, 2017

  We have an old barn. One that I fell in love with despite its crookedness. There is just something about old barn wood. It was built in the 1850s. We started the spring of 2016 with over 30 chickens and are down to 23. We pasture raise our chickens from the sun up to …

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The First Taste of Our Own Home Grown Chicken

February 2, 2017

I didn’t grow up necessarily as a farm kid. Yet I was a farm girl because in middle school every day when that bell rang for us to leave I was waiting for a big old van with the logo Pickett Fences farm to take me to my sanctuary. I have loved farm animals and …

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8 Do’s and Don’ts of a Life With a Baby Mini Pig

January 24, 2017

I wrote this post just weeks after we picked up our first-ever 10-week-old pot-bellied pig. This is my experience going through it. I’ve come a long way. The day after Thanksgiving 2016, we drove out just my husband and me about 45 minutes away to pick up our first mini pig. The emotions were excited …

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How the Weather Affects the Look of Your Eggs

December 8, 2016

The first real thunderstorm at our new farmhouse had quite an affect on our little ladies. The next morning when I went to the nesting boxes my eggs looked like a wrinkled old mess. There was for sure something funky going on just before that egg came out. So could I still eat this egg? …

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How to Raise Chickens Frugally for the First Time

October 27, 2016

Raising chickens for eggs and meat is one of the easier options for raising your own food. Today many areas allow hens in their backyard within a city limit. Meat birds today like Cornish Rocks are full-grown in a matter of weeks. It doesn’t matter if you have 25 acres or a 1/2 acre; many …

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