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mobile chicken water system ... part 3 and finish

Yes - it's finally finished (actually already since a while, but I moved house and didn't have internet until now - so I couldn't update anything). It works fine and the chicken love it (and I love...

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silage and good weather

finally the grass is dry and high - perfect conditions for the first cut of silage.We are still a bit behind this year, as cold nights and a heavy winter delayed the growth of everything.

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mobile chicken water system ... part 2

the metallwork is finished - and I painted the whole trailer.After the paint is dry I'll mount the water tank on top and install the water feeder ...

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mobile chicken water system ...

In my earlier blogs I reported about the construction of our second chicken house. We have now two chicken houses on wheels with all together around 75 chicken. The chicken are moved around the fields...

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potatoes etc.

I didn't write anything into the blog for ages ... somehow got lazy. But lots of things happened - and are growing :) The potatoe crop looks already pretty good (the variety Orla is doing a bit...

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making compost in big style

Today the neighbour farmer came over to help me with his big machines to mix my pile of farm yard manure.One picture shows one of the small piles, before it got mixed.He loaded his manure spreader and...

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ready for growing ...

finally I managed to get the rest of the field ready for the season.Now I got one of the farm fields turned into a vegetable field - with 600kg of potatoes on one side and lots of nice rows for other...

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potatoes forever :)

The weather is just perfect.We managed today to get the whole crop of potatoes in - 600kg all together (300kg of each variety).It is a bit late for the early ones ... but hopefully just ok. The weather...

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good weather

the nice sunny and windy days improved the soil conditions dramatically.it is possible again to drive on the fields and do some work.I started to work on the potatoe and vegetable field with the rotary...

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hi-tech chicken and lazy farmers ;)

One tries to make one's life easier ... and so I was very delighted when I stumbled across an automatic hen house door. Our chicken are moving from field to field - we have a rotation where a field...

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