Sometimes when you have been working with certain topics for a long period of time you forget that not everyone has the same level of...

For some of us it takes longer to get things right than others. Finally after 55 years, I think I have the answer for the incubator that...

There may be a few people out there old enough to remember the old Weekly Readers that you got in grade school. Growing up in the late...

Back in the days when I had more time I remember reading in the “ Our Iowa” magazine as much as I could to learn about the state that I...

When are desirable traits not always so desirable. Early in June I did a gardening program for a local group of backyard gardeners...

For as long as I can remember I've always had to deal with some form of wildlife destroying the garden and the crops. Growing up in...

If I could be granted just one wish before people ordered anything from us it would be that they understood what genetic diversity is....

I have many fond memories of making this cake as it was one of the first things I made for my now wife Linda. Before we were married she...

It is often difficult to find a palatable use for purple sweet potatoes. At least that is my opinion. I have never found any of them to...

There are many things we can learn from spiders and they are such beneficial animals to have. Yes, there are dangerous ones but part of...

30 years of working on preservation and we finally have reached where we have all of our chickens, ducks and geese in better...

I originally wrote this in early August 2020 but the Derecho changed the routine. I have since started using the tiller this Spring of...

It didn't seem possible that COVID -19 could have so much impact on things. It was Friday March 13th and all of my students wondered if...

Every year I judge between 6 and 10 4-H poultry shows for various counties in eastern Iowa. It is always a fun experience to interact...

Homemade feeds can work and at one point in my life worked well. Between my first and second years of college my parents moved to the...

2020 marks 50 years that I have raised poultry. It all began in the Spring of 1970 with 4 small ducklings that I lost to a weasel at 6...

It has been sometime since I visited this page. I had struggled with what ideas would be the most useful and what would be a waste of...

If it is one question I get more than any other in the poultry world it is when do you butcher a traditional non modern meat maker...

With all of the news about the burning of the Amazon Rainforest it only seems appropriate for each of us to think about we can do for...

These are definitely changing times for the poultry world. In late June the USPS upped the cost to send a 100 size chick box by in some...