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Building A Chicken Coop For (Almost) Free

by KatieJune 29, 2016April 23, 2023Building / Chickens1 Comment

Today we finished our 3′ x 5′ chicken coop (yay!) and were able to move our thirty-two chicks out of the green house.

I know a 3′ X 5′ seems a little small for thirty-two chickens, but they are all under a month old right now and have plenty of space. And fifteen of them are meat birds, so they won’t be living in the coop to long. We made a stockade style “cabin” chicken coop as we needed to clear some trees, anyway. We were able to come up with quite a few 4 ft long pieces roughly the same diameter. So then we picked a spot and Kyle started digging!

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4 Wheeler Appreciation

by KatieJune 26, 2016November 13, 20244wheeler / Chickens / Equipment3 Comments

So the last few weeks have been unreasonably hard.

Our 4-wheeler’s drive shaft broke, and while we were driving on the beach too! We pushed it as close to the cliff face as possible and trekked the 5 miles back home. Kyle then went back at the next low tide and managed to get it to the truck. It took him 3 hours for a trip he can normally make in 35 minutes. Then we had to order parts and waited 2 weeks for them to come in. In the meantime, we drove the truck and parked it on the beach, walking the last half mile home each time we needed to go to town. Luckily, the tides have been below 30 ft for that time frame. Any tides over that and it would no longer be safe to park the truck on the beach.

Today we finally had all the parts and time, so we decided to work on the 4-wheeler. After much online research, we managed to get the old parts off, and they were definitely ruined.

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Tagged : 4 wheeler / alaska / atv / homestead / Homesteading / off grid / off road / self sufficient

Honda EU2000i Generator Review

by KatieJune 22, 2016November 13, 2024Equipment1 Comment

Using a generator as your main source of power for most of the year is a lot different than taking it out once a year for camping or an emergency. As such, I thought it was time to come back to this review, over a year later, and update how our generator is doing.

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Tagged : alaska / generator / homestead / Homesteading / honda / off grid / off road / review / self sufficient

How To Raise Chicks Without Electricity

by KatieJune 21, 2016November 13, 2024Chickens6 Comments

.I love chickens, I always have ever since raising my first batch of chicks as an FFA project in high school. So when Kyle and I moved off the grid, chickens were a must on my list, both for meat and eggs. However, raising chicks without electricity comes with quite a few challenges, so here is what’s working for me.

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