Alaskan Homestead Update : 17 May 2018

A bit of a long post. We got a log cart, more hatchlings, a bit about the garden, and life.

We got a garden cart, big deal to us! I have been using a triplet stroller frame for five years. It worked, but I was just time to get someing that is actually designed to haul heavy stuff.

This cart can hold 800 lbs, switch the handle to attach to a four wheeler for pulling too. Has a metal body, real rubber tires, and removable sides!

It is a simple pin attachment.

You pull the pins and flip/turn the handle to the trailer hitch, put the pins back in and attach to your four wheeler or what have you and away you go.

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We got it from Home Depot

Per the norm of anything in Alaska we paid $10 more for it then in the states.

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Yesterday we heard more babies hatching, will post photos of them when they are cute and fuzzy.
We will have some turkeys hatching soon too.
So far we have two peking duck eggs hatching, so I know for sure they are a cross with a magpie. Only have male magpies.
I have two other smaller duck eggs hatching too. So those could be khaki Campbell magpie cross or just magpie.

First baby out of the egg , as I was typing

Two smaller ducklings

One of the big peking ducklings

Here are my big babies and where they hang out during the day, at night they come inside.

I put a canopy over my old bunny hutch. Tied down a big tarp over the top and weighed it down with logs.

As you can see there is lots of head room. They have a hutch to hide, they have leafs to walk on, way more room then a brooder box, and a heat light. Along with food and water.

The big kids, I have been taking them over to the chicken/duck yard to introduce them to everyone. The goose ran off an adult duck through the fence, lol. Soon they will be big enough to hold their ground in the yard. The next step after the bunny hutch will be to set up the big play pen in the yard with shelter. But it will get them use to everyone’s sounds and use to each other without to much worry. Worked great the last time I introduced new birds.

They are getting wing feathers, and the goose is showing some of their adult feathers too.
The goose has white and brownish grey feathers on their butt, and two tone brownish grey on their side. Still don’t know what kinda goose. I keep looking at google photos too, lol.

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Just going to share what’s growing inside right now.

A double pumpkin from the grow tent
Do I pop off the lower pumpkin????

I know not much about the garden. Some of my plants are looking pitiful, but my purple potatoes are doing amazing! One of my yellow potatoes sprouted, my herbs are doing good though.
I have a fan blowing the warm air around so the warm air isn’t all at the top. But I don’t think it mattered this time 😔

I will post more about it later though.

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Onto life in general.

I have been driving around illegally for over a month. I didn’t even know, not until my husband tried to add me to a bank account. So I had to go to the DMV. I don’t get how everything is in Palmer, the DMV, dump and hospital. Palmer is way smaller then Wasilla.
Anyways, the DMV was nothing compared to some of the ones in the states.