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Squirrels Haven Join us in our adventure of city slicker to farm life. Located in Ste Genevieve Manitoba.

We would love you to join us in our blunders and successes as we learn to navigate living on 12 acres of land, complete with forest, gardens a creek annd animals!

I did my first beehive inspection today. It was more to do some hive adaptations than it was to inspect, but none the le...
01/07/2025

I did my first beehive inspection today. It was more to do some hive adaptations than it was to inspect, but none the less a quick inspection got done. I didn't take pictures as I didn't want to stress everyone anymore then I had to.

The bees are making their own modifications by building out comb on the frames which they came with, because I put things in a different orientation. Some of this comb is pretty wonky. I may simply add a top bar to these few frames that I placed in sideways, as a temporary fix for now, to help orient the frames a little better... But that's a project for another day.

For now I've added a queen excluder to prevent the bees from building their comb for honey UP and out the feeder hole and into the lid cavity. I've also added a "medium" box with a few frames, so if they want to put some honey stores up higher. They now can. I managed to salvage a few small pieces of their honey comb. It's delicious. I won't be harvesting any honey from this year, as they will need these stores themselves, but I may steal the occasional piece here and there.

Next inspection, I'll get some photos, but there is a lot more bees in there now than when I started.

This cute little house is getting a 2nd chance at life. A friend was offering it up for grabs before it became fire wood...
27/06/2025

This cute little house is getting a 2nd chance at life. A friend was offering it up for grabs before it became fire wood. I plan to make it into a mini coop for my mini birds. I'm going to raise it off the ground for a start, I'll give it a fresh coat of paint, get some of that courrigated plastic to protect the roof, get some perches in there, and possibly insulate the interior with just the bubble foil. Sadly it does NOT fit inside my doors to my coop, so I'll have some weather proofing to do. I have pieces from a falling apart coop which is currently protected in a dog kennel, so I can repurpose those broken pieces to help rejuvenate this little cutie.

I just have to make sure a certain goat doesn't decide to jump on it during his next break out.

Looking at you Inky. I may need to fence it in. 😂

Thanks Shane Strazza

The harvesting has started! Wild chamomile (aka pineapple w**d), and lovage (the leaves taste like celery)I plan to do s...
26/06/2025

The harvesting has started! Wild chamomile (aka pineapple w**d), and lovage (the leaves taste like celery)

I plan to do some chives as well, but I need to get a screen to dry them without them falling through the cracks.

Today a random young rooster showed up? He was in my back yard, Lumi found him. He walked right up to me like he was home... Except, I don't have any red roosters? He appears to be a meat bird possibly? No clue where he came from either.

The goat saga continues, but it's way less now. Only Aspen is the trouble maker, all have learned about the electric net...
25/06/2025

The goat saga continues, but it's way less now. Only Aspen is the trouble maker, all have learned about the electric netting and no one dares to try and escape that route. Hopefully sometime next week we will have wire to run the remaining electric in all pens.

In the mean time I've been holding out. We have a new addition. Meet Jewel! She's a German shepherd that is my husbands service dog prospect.

19/06/2025

Mother f***er!

Where the heck is your escape point! 🤬🤬🤬🤬 The 2 I know of have been secured!

Aspen and Inky, you were warned. After the fence was set up, but not "on" inky got himself all wrapped up in it, because...
19/06/2025

Aspen and Inky, you were warned. After the fence was set up, but not "on" inky got himself all wrapped up in it, because he's a moron. I got him all untangled without incident. Aspen tried to eat it... Because that's who he is... He must taste everything.

After final set up, Lulu checked out the fence first and realized, oh this thing is "spicy" and quickly ran off. Aspen was next, and bolted from it, but I'm unsure if he got the "spicy" taste or not. But I can assure you, the fence IS WORKING!

The best part... Now that it's set up, I can just attach some wire to it, and run the remainder of the pen. I just need some supplies.

At least one of the areas is goat proofed.

16/06/2025

Well. It's not as chaos free as I believed it to be... This took easily 5 minutes. There was a lot of swearing involved.

15/06/2025

At this point, it isn't even worth posting, with the dogs assistance.... They make quick work of the goats return. There is no more chaos of me screaming and yelling and getting knocked on my butt 😂😂.

Now it's seamless, the goats see the dogs... Run back into the pen, jump the fence and stay where the belong.

13/06/2025

I've had enough of this nonsense. I've recruited help. Meet my "herding dogs". Poodles wear many hats. 2 dogs is better than one. This now has put a nonsense to the chaos of trying to catch them. The dogs are amazing. They prevent the other goats from leaving when I open the gate and make the escapees go into their rightful pens as quickly as possible.

Price shopping for electric fence supplies. There is a lot of things I need for this.

These 2 literally jumped the fence with me standing like 10ft away. As****es.

12/06/2025

Today's plans got hijacked..... Maybe tomorrow I'll get to the fence. Until then.... Enjoy.

Get goats they said, it'll be fun they said. 🤬🤬🤬

12/06/2025

Mother fu**er!!! 🤬 🤬 🤬

Electric fence install happening tomorrow. 2 seperate Fences are being completly cleared. All I need is one top line in very key areas.

Herding goats is becoming a huge problem I've recruited the dog.

Open gate to out escapees back in... Fenced goats exit... Escaped goats won't enter... Now 4 goats lose and a wrestling match begins.

The camera didn't catch what happened in the pen, but Aspen knocked me clear on my ass when he charged at me trying to escape Polaris who wad trying to herd him.

These 2 morons escaped 6x today.

10/06/2025

What the heck! Where did you come from?

I blame Inky for this. Naughty naughty boys.

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