Life on our new farm is busy and hot, but Jon and I consider ourselves “lucky ducks” because we have our first livestock on the farm. You guessed it – ducks! Sunday morning we picked up nine Khaki Campbell ducks that are six weeks old. Hens of this breed are notoriously good egg layers, excellent foragers on pasture, and hardy. Duck eggs are nutrient-dense and rich in protein, fat, cholesterol, and calcium. People who are allergic to chicken’s eggs can often enjoy eggs of other layers such as ducks.
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A misty morning on the walking trail.
Jon and I have been very busily transitioning from suburb to farm. It has been quite an adventure! Thanks to all of you who have been following us on facebook or Twitter, send encouraging emails, and listening to the archives of our Podcasts. I finished my last day of my 33 year teaching career Friday, May 28, so we hope to get back to regularly scheduled blogs and Podcasts again. Thank you for your loyalty and patience.
Since our last Podcast on April 2, we have completed so many projects at Broad River Pastures! In spite of the busyness, Jon religiously walks the farm each morning with his coffee and takes time to enjoy the beauty here. On the left is a photo of the woods near Kelley Creek one misty morning in May. I’ll see if we can post more of his morning walk photos on the Our Natural Life Podcast page on facebook.
We have been greatly blessed this month to become grandparents once again! This time we have a grandson. Mom, Dad, big sister and baby are doing fine.
Continue reading ONL061 From Suburb to Farm
In this episode we discuss clicker training for your pet. It is a more natural way to train a pet that involves positive reinforcement contrasted against the older methods involving verbal and physical discipline. We answer the following questions;
What is clicker training?
What is natural about it?
How do I get started?
and we share some personal dog training [...]
This is the second part of our series about holistic pet care and how it differs from traditional allopathic veterinary care. We discuss alternative treatment methods and share some real life experiences with that we have experienced with traditional remedies. In this show we answer the following questions;
What is acupuncture?
Why use Chinese herbs for pets?
What are [...]
In this episode we talk about holistic pet care and how it differs from traditional allopathic veterinary care. We discuss homeopathic remedies and share a couple of our real life experiences with them. We answer the following questions;
- How does holistic pet care differ from allopathic veterinary care?
- What is homeopathy?
- What is osteopathy?
- What are the problems associated with vaccination and medication?
Continue reading ONL010 – Holistic Pet Care
In this show we talk about the benefits of feeding our pets a species appropriate diet of raw meat and bones. Some of the points we cover are;
- How we started feeding our dogs naturally
- Problems with commercial pet food
- Rationale and benefits of raw feeding
Commercial pet foods are unnatural, unhealthy, and contain ingredients you do not want your pet to eat, including used restaurant grease and rendered, euthanized animals & even roadkill retrieved by local government agencies.
Dogs and cats are carnivores designed by nature to consume a raw, whole prey diet. Animals fed a whole prey diet will be happier and healthier, have smaller stools, cleaner teeth, and fewer diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and kidney disease.
Keep reading – we have a list of links and 2 great videos on the next page.
Continue reading ONL009 – Raw Feeding Your Pets
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