Cedar Writes

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  • All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

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    I was blessed, growing up, to be allowed to have pets, and to take part in caring for the varied livestock we had while I was growing up. I got to have, as a horse-mad young girl, not only a pony, but a mustang, and a foal, and one of my riding teachers had been…

  • Livestock Resources for Further Research

    Livestock Resources for Further Research

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    Another guest post by my mother, Kathleen Sanderson, in follow-up to the post at Mad Genius Club about livestock in space. This is also useful information if you are planning on keeping small stock while stuck on our current mudball.  There seems to be quite a bit of interest in the animals that colonists might…

  • Moving Critters and Raspberries!

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    Well, we didn’t move the raspberries, but I found the first ripe ones today. The wild ones ripen first, and I found a patch that are jsut starting to come on! The domestic razzes will be on in a week or two. Then I will make jam! Today the handful I picked was fed to…

  • Poultry and More

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  • Popovers and Chicks

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    My popovers didn’t “pop” but they still tasted awesome, especially with the blueberry jam that we put up last summer on it. I think next time I will use a metal pan, the silicone muffin tins didn’t work well for this! The little golden ones are Golden-Pencilled Hamburgs, and the black and white ones are…

  • Greenhouse Chickens

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    Yesterday was a big day here on Stonycroft. We started the day with biscuits at 7, and from there we made a list of everything that needed to be done on the farm, and then set out on errands. Agway first, our local feed and seed store. Rabbit food, chicken food, and pig food for…