Small Projects During the Holidays - 2025

This week we want to talk about the projects that we completed during the holidays.  Each of these projects were smaller and did not justify a video of their own, but we did do a lot over that week and a half.

Chicken Coop Ease of Use Improvements Pt 2 - Watering System

This week we will continue with improvements that we have made to the chicken coop since the initial build.  We have already talked about a number of security and access improvements.  This week it is ease of use improvements, specifically the watering system.

The goal with many of these improvements is to make keeping our chickens a easy as possible and as low maintenance as possible.  This watering system definitely checks both of those boxes.

Chicken Coop Ease of Use Improvements Pt 1 - Access Improvements

Woodworking - Rocking Llama

Now that we are getting settled and have some of the major projects done, we can spend time on some other things.  So this week, we are doing a woodworking project: making a rocking llama as a Christmas gift for a friend.  The rocking llama is a fun project and baby bear still plays with hers a bit even though she has really out grown it.  

The shed allowed us to get some of the clutter out of the garage so I can more easily do some larger woodworking projects.  This is the first project in the last 3 years where I didn't spend over half of my time just moving things around so I could use a tool.

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted.  It was a challenge to edit down about 10 hours of video to less than half an hour.

Processing Rabbits for the First Time

This week we are processing two rabbits before the weather really turns.  This is our first time processing rabbits, although we have processed chickens and turkeys before.  There is an excellent video on the details of processing rabbits here that we used as reference.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K9obs_MSt0

We did not have as easy of a time at it as they did in the video, but we got it done.  We are planning on using these for Christmas dinner, so we will let you know how they turn out.

Neighbors

Chicken Coop Security Enhancements