A Wild Weekend On The Homestead

This weekend has been a busy one on the homestead as the cooler weather sets in it's time to stock up on firewood and get everything ready for the coming winter. Winters here are long and often brutal with decent snowfall that remains on the ground for months.

This time last year is when I first moved into my homestead and it's pretty crazy to think its been a year already! Looking back I realize how far I've come and home the homestead has grown with my first garden harvest, chickens and moo having twin babies! That's a lot in just a year and it's always important to reflect back otherwise it all just seems like a busy blur lol

The wood pile is huge and I'll be spending many days splitting wood and building it up. Last year I burned through roughly 6-6 logs a day depending on the wood type and size. By the end of the winter I started just throwing in the logs full lol but this year I need to split them to get the firewood dried out and ready for the years to come. This reminds me of one of my first ever vlogs I did moving into the homestead How To Split Firewood / Heading My Homestead I recently got a maul which I'll most likely do a video on later.

As you can see in the other picture one of the chickens seem like they got attacked by something. I used to have the chickens fenced in and in a chicken run. However they kept escaping and getting out and I just gave up on it for the most part. Now they free range over the homestead and return to the coop at night. Of course that means they only have protection by the dogs which do an amazing job and the rooster whos still been nice to me lol All of the chickens are accounted for luckily so I have no idea what happened. For all I know two of the chickens went at each other who knows! I'm just happy they are all good and for the most part getting along now including Chrissy who was the new hun introduced last month.

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