The Gozé Family Adventures: A little more detail on every day life:

Animals are moved frequently in order to keep feed costs low (the more they graze, the less you spend in feed, and according to what we're reading the healthier the animal is). We have netting with strands of wire in it to conduct electricity which we move to a new area every few days.

Another dent in the van? Who did this one? Liberty? Are you cwazy? She can barely reach the pedals! I'll get back on topic...

This is the start of a one acre garden. The area is cordoned off into ~50x50 sections and the animals are put to work. The goats are introduced first to eat the grass down and then the pigs are moved in to eat roots and till the dirt. In this pic the pigs have only been busy for about six hours, by tomorrow the ground is completely tilled.

Every day is different, it can be frustrating but you frequently end up learning new things. Here the coils on a tractor engine failed and I had to remove the engine to install the new coils and a "key" that will change the timing (the key goes on the drive shaft and changes the position of the flywheel).

This is 5,000 lbs. of corner pipe for fencing. Looks harmless until you start pulling it. I've learned a lot about towing over the past few years and even more recently.

Another chicken day.

Chickens are first placed into the cones on the right, to the left of the cones is the scalder which loosens the feathers (it is propane heated to over 145 degrees), they are next spun in the plucker which has rubber "fingers" that remove the feathers, then the dressing is done on the table before they go into the freezer. Over 70 chickens were processed on this equipment in four hours which is pretty good.