Ahava Homestead

08/09/2022

Our homestead is shutting down and moving. We will start again in a couple years. So our goats are looking for a new home! Message us if you’re interested! The does and doeling are ADGA registered, and the two boys are whethers and would make great pets!

30/08/2022

Permaculture. All things working together.

Whether you eat animals or not, animal agriculture is important for restoring environmental and soil health.

The soil on the left is the result of regenerative agricultural practices being implemented and holds significantly more organic and Carbon matter. Sheep and cattle were carefully managed and rotated on the land. They ate the grass, deposited their urine and dung and were then moved away to let the grass grow back quickly.

The cycle is then repeated at a later date depending on season variability and vegetation recovery. This allows the pulling of carbon into the soil. It is darker because carbon from the atmosphere is now in the soil making it more nutrient rich and dense.

The soil on the right is from a commercial farm that grows grain and uses no animals on the land.

The soil with more carbon holds a lot more water (roughly 150,000 liters of water per hectare for every 1% of carbon that’s added) and is full of microbes.

Animals play a crucial role in regenerating the land and getting carbon into the soil when properly managed.

These ‘regenerative’ practices also can be applied to crop management through the careful integration of livestock.

27/08/2022

We still have 40 whole organic pasture raised chickens left for sale! $6/lb and they average 3-4 pounds each. Message us to order!

13/08/2022

Today was processing day! We have birds ranging from 3-4 pounds. They’re organic pasture raised, humanely killed. Message us to order, pickup is in south KCMO.

07/08/2022

We will have Organic Pasture raised whole chicken for sale NEXT WEEK! You can pre-order now and we will also post an order sheet next week once they are processed and packaged for you all. $6 a pound.

06/08/2022

Guardian dog in training

04/08/2022

Lambs have been the easiest thing to raise. We don’t have to buy any feed for them until winter when grass is gone. We just move them throughout the day and they mow the yard for us. In return we will have delicious meat next year!

15/07/2022

Well it is REALLY hard to get a good photo of these little jumping jelly beans. So here’s the best we got. Introducing Liberty Pecan! She’s the only doeling we had so we’ll be keeping her and one she’s old enough to be bred, she’ll have her own babies and we’ll get yummy milk from her.

09/07/2022

I’ve been out of town for a couple weeks so no updates for a while. But this week our mamas had their kids! 2 boys and a girl! Will give proper introductions as soon as we can get them to stand still enough for some good pics 😆

28/06/2022

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17/06/2022

Meat birds and a couple turkeys got moved to pasture today! They are enjoying the green grass and dirt!

15/06/2022

Some frozen chicken feet for our protection dog in training. A cool treat for a good girl.

13/06/2022

The rabbit hutch got built this weekend. Today we’re getting two does to join our buck. We should be able to start breeding in a few months. Looking forward to rabbit stew this fall!

08/06/2022

Love getting to see whitetail deer in our backyard.

04/06/2022

Something about their little wagging tails just makes me giggle!

03/06/2022

Feeding the lambs. These babies get fed three times a day with a before bedtime top off. We will soon be switching to twice a day feedings which we’ll do for a month then wean. Then these two will spend the rest of their days eating the grass for 8 months.

02/06/2022

50 new chicks arrived today. Hoping and praying these will make it the full 9 weeks until processing day!

30/05/2022

We’ve been learning all about animal health and one of the things most recently is how to care for goats holistically. Sometimes it’s not always possible, and this is one of those times. These are worm eggs, found in their stool. With the overload of worms they have, they’ve become very anemic (not good for any goat but especially when they’ll be having babies soon!). We’re pretty sure they came to us this way and weren’t being cared for properly. So we are now giving them daily vitamin injections, along side iron supplements and a chemical dewormer. Once finished we will hope to be proactive in preventing worms rather than having to be reactive.

28/05/2022

Ryan fixed the chicken tractor back up and reinforced it. We moved the ducks out as a transitional space until the chicken run is ready for them. We also added a couple lambs to the farm. They will be raised for meat and the ducks will be for eggs.

22/05/2022

Yesterday morning a couple neighborhood dogs found their way into our yard and tore into our chickens tractor, killing all but two of our birds. We are devastated by this traumatic loss and are sorry to let you all know we won’t have any meat to sell you now until October. We did find the owner of one of the dogs, please pray with us that he will do the right thing and compensate us for our losses.

19/05/2022

Moving our chickens onto fresh pasture every morning keeps them happy and healthy. We will be taking preorders this week so be on the lookout for that!

16/05/2022

Feeding the little pullets some mealworms. Hoping to get them used to us and become much less skittish.

16/05/2022

Dani Thellman You are our winner!! We will reach out to you about getting your organic pasture raised whole chicken. Congrats and thanks to everyone who shared and commented!

14/05/2022

Just a few more hours left to enter!!

We’re giving away a free chicken!! To enter, be sure to follow our page, share this post, and then comment with your best chicken joke or story! Giveaway closes 05/14 at midnight, and we’ll choose a winner at random the following day.

12/05/2022

Sadly we had an order mishap with our ducks and they didn’t come this week like we’d hoped and planned. We reordered from a new company and are happy to have 15 ducklings joining us in two weeks instead. Thanks to McMurray Hatchery!

12/05/2022

The meat birds got a bigger space today! Only a couple weeks left until processing day. They are living their best life now!

10/05/2022

In 2007, Mother Earth News magazine decided to test the nutritional value of pastured eggs from 14 different farms.

They were measured in a lab, then compared to the USDA standard conventional egg.

As you can see from the second photo, eggs from pastured hens were more nutritious than the conventional eggs you might find at the supermarket.

They were higher in vitamin A, E and omega-3s, as well as lower in cholesterol and saturated fat.

Another study showed that free-range eggs, which were laid by hens allowed to roam out in the sun, contained three to four times the amount of vitamin D than the eggs of hens that were raised indoors.

07/05/2022

We’re giving away a free chicken!! To enter, be sure to follow our page, share this post, and then comment with your best chicken joke or story! Giveaway closes 05/14 at midnight, and we’ll choose a winner at random the following day.

06/05/2022

Industrial chickens are often housed with thousands of other chickens and fed a diet of genetically engineered corn and soybeans. They are also given antibiotics to prevent the spread of illnesses. Large corporate businesses want to make the quickest buck on the cheapest budget and maximize profits, and this is how they do that.

We believe in raising chickens the way they were made to live and thrive. Moving them outside on new pasture every day, supplementing with organic soy free feed, keeping them outside in sunshine and fresh air, with plenty of space to move about and scratch in the dirt. This makes for happier healthier chickens, which gives a healthy product in turn for you!