You guys requested them, so here they are. 19 days old. Thanks for reading my blog! For the latest projects and updates please subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow along as I set up a sustainable homestead with my tiny house 🙂

There are a total of 7 baby New Zealand White rabbits now at the homestead. My Doe finally had her babies. Her gestation period was longer than I had expected. According to the books and videos I’ve read and watched it takes a rabbit 28-32 days to have their babies however mine took 33-34 days….

Of the 29 eggs, 7 hatched which is just under a 25% hatch rate. Of those 7, 3 died which left me with 4 baby quail. They will spend the next 17 days in a chick brooder.A 25% hatch rate is not good, but it is exciting that this homemade incubator made from a cardboard…

  I like to take my projects full circle through the life cycle. I bought these quail a few days after they had hatched. The plan is to hatch new chicks here at the farm to get back to my starting point, otherwise this wouldn’t be a sustainable food source. These quail are extremely domesticated…

My aquarium filters are having issues keeping up with the massive amounts of fish waste produced by the blue tilapia in my fish tank. I have 20 fish in a 75 gallon tank with 2 filters. You would think the filters I have would provide more than enough filtration as they are both rated for…

In modern times we sometimes forget where our food comes from. Meat comes from “the store” and food scraps are treated as garbage and packed into the landfill. Part of the fun in sustainable design is creating a closed loop system where no waste is created. Check this out. The chicken and vegetable scraps from…

Many people have expressed interest in my projects and want to know how to get started. I think the easiest way is to start composting your food scraps. This can be as simple as piling them up in your backyard. If you live in a rural area and worry about raccoons and other critters rooting…

This is the 3rd chicken coop I have built. I combined and modified many techniques from the Internet into a design that makes taking care of chickens MUCH easier based on my own experience. See a video of this design below. Let me point out a few key features of the coop. Here in Washington…

The quails laid their first egg this week. They are approximately 7 weeks old. Over the next several days they laid a total of 10 eggs. You can see here they are much smaller than a chicken egg. I fried half of them, hard-boiled the other five, and shared them with my friends. They taste…

When I bred the rabbits it appeared that the male (Scofield) wasn’t “finishing” the job. The female would dominate him and he’d go running away. During their last encounter the doe scratched/bit Scofield’s nose which proceeded to get infected and swelled to an abnormal size. It looked like Rudolph the red nosed rabbit. Taking an…