WELCOME to Our Life At Hidden Meadow Farm !!! We are a family of three (a bunch if you count all the animals) that live on a little more than 18 acres in Central Mississippi. We have lived on this property since 2009. Since moving to this property we have been working on turning this neglected piece of land into a farm that has become know as Hidden Meadow Farm. The land is sectioned so that we have several pastures with one being tucked away on the back side of the property. This hidden meadow is the inspiration for our farm name Hidden Meadow Farm.
Our farming life began in 2010 when we bought a bottle baby calf at a fall festival. Since that time we have added more cows, chickens, and goats. Also dogs, with Ranger, Caden's puppy being the newest member of the family.
We will also take you along on some hikes, kayaking, fishing and hunting trips and other fun adventures. Sometimes we need to play!!
Join us and follow along as we live OUR LIFE AT HIDDEN MEADOW FARM.
No cement Foundation nothing level using pry bars I'm sure there's chips in that marble no pipe rollers OMG I work at 4 cemeteries I had a hard time watching that one
Dead monument setters are rolling over in their graves...and us live ones are cringing. PLEASE, educate yourself on the proper way to set a stone of this size.
So you move the shelter each month. Do you put straw in the shelter each month? You mentioned 60 days before they go back on the same pasture.. so you must have a total of 3 pastures. Where are the bucks during this time?
I was watching and thinking the same. If they are using the same needle, Needle gets dull and the medication is getting contaminated. I always use a new needle and syringe.
That was a shame with the fence. I have had that happen to brand new fences too. I try to cull out the dead trees, but it doesn’t always work. New subscriber here
I do my splice very similar to yours. The one difference, and I think it’s a big one, is I make my wraps nice and tight to each other. The old saying is three wraps will pull a freight train. I don’t clip off the ends either. I am not going for beauty. I am going for strength.
I think the spoke wheel will do me better as I’ll have central water and electric for the fences. Jus move the herd, adjust water and feed containers and move the fence. Also, the fence in the Philippines can be made of trees. Cut down a mulberry tree of four inches to six inches and a meter long and stuck them in the ground as posts. The trees grow back. A living fence that I attach my energised wire too.
I could only do three paddocks on row crops and this have only three harvests per year. My thoughts are that the weeds grow so fast that two weeks with goats followed by two weeks with pigs turns the soil and feeds my stock at the same time. I’ll run chickens and Guinea fowl on the same paddock.
I’m planning retirement in the Philippines. I have issues with grass and weeds in my bananas and coconuts etc. I will do the rotations of pigs and goats in two week increments. The mobile shelters I’m considering would be on small trailer frames. My other thought on rotation is like a spike wheel and a central home base for pigs and goats. 14 pastures spokes gives me 14 rotations. For the pigs, I will plant row crops and potatoes and peanuts after they are out. I have 120 days from planning to harvest. 14 harvests per year.
Cheers from Australia. How do ya get the bowl and filter off? I've gotta change my filter on the bobcat, I've undone the nut on top and drained the fuel out the bottom, but the filter and bowl won't bloody budge! I don't want to break it. I feel i may have to give it a few taps with a plastic mallet. I wish i had that much room in there to work. So that nut on top is holding it on the shaft through the center of the filter? Thanks in advance if ya reply.
How are they protected from predators in that back pasture? Coyotes would wipe mine out over night if I didn’t have my livestock Guardian dog with mine 24/7.
I recently learned donkeys will kill coyotes and are excellent guardians if you can't get a guardian dog. I'm hoping for a great Pyrenees and some donkeys at our farm :)
Hello sir my boer buck is 15months old but still he is not agressive in matting.he just done 1x stud session.what medication or vitamins to give my buck?thank you
Having you looked at giving them smaller pastures and moving them more often? Regrowth happens in 3-4 days, and if they can be moved off of it, the forage regrows and recovers faster. You can leave your permenant paddocks and just subdivide them for once a week vs once a month. It will extend the rest period of your paddocks. You aren't getting a very good trample from the goats - possibly understocking which will be better with the addition of the cows.
