goals for 2013
i’m not a big new year resolution person. i usually casually come up with a few but i’ve never been too serious about it. i guess i come up with goals/ideas throughout the year. here’s what i’ve got so far (theses are mostly related to gardening/cooking sorts of things though i did think beyond that!):
- grow squash and pumpkins
- improve my bread making skills
- learn how to crochet
- make more soap
- harvest an egg from our backyard (not sure if this will happen…we’re currently crunching the numbers to see if raising chickens is truly worth it or if it’s significantly cheaper to simply buy quality eggs. that said, i really want chickens :))
- volunteer more
- run a marathon (maybe! my last one was painful and i’m not sure i want to put in the time again)
- catch more fish
- harvest an elk (this will be a goal of mine until it happens)
- make more jam
i asked randy if he had a any new year goals and he said, “i’d like to build a long range rifle for hunting.” figures 🙂
I have info on chickens for ya. It really depends on how much you can let them free range and how many scraps you can feed them. The more they are free roaming the less feed they will eat. It also depends on how much your feed costs and if you want to buy organic feed. You also need about twice as many chickens as you want eggs for the day. Chickens don’t always lay, they lay ever 25 hours. Then there is molting where they lose their feathers and they don’t lay. I would say get 3 hens and go from there 🙂 You should be able to keep at least 10 chickens and go through only 40 lbs of feed a week. Hope that helps a little. I’d take the plunge cause chickens are way cool and have great personalities.
thanks for your thoughts! we don’t have the space for them to totally free range so we would need to supplement their food quite a bit. but we would give them plenty of tasty scraps and i wouldn’t mind some chicken poop compost! i’m hoping it works out.