At Firewatch Farm Co

We raise all of our animals on soy and GMO free food, in its original state, from a local feed mill. Our up and coming generation of birds have been fed soy free food from day 1. Any treats given are grown on site by our very own to ensure they are grown with the same ideals. 

Our birds and rabbits never see medicine, because they don't need it. They have excellent food quality that is the fermented with added herbs, apple cider vinegar, and Molasses. The chickens love the garlic in their de-chlorinated water. The birds are raised with grass under their feet with new stomping grounds to explore every week. 

Unfortunately our wild rabbit population is too heavy to allow our rabbits safe permanent access to pasture, but we are on our way to get them there. This management style allows our animals to stay healthy the way nature intended. 

Firewatch Farm Co. A firewatch can mean many things to different people, it fit because most of them apply to us. 

According to OSHA

"A fire watch is the person or persons responsible for continuously observing hot work activity for the detection of, and response to, fires during hot work operations." 

Before we started the farm, we worked full time in construction. As a budding apprentice, you are often times assigned to be a fire watch. If there was welding or hot work on a job, a second person is required to keep an eye out for fires starting, since the person welding has their hood down and can't see. They are also too busy thinking about what their work boyfriend is going to complement them on later. So to prevent the top talent in the country from setting themselves on fire, they give a kid a fire extinguisher and call it good. 

According to the Army

Firewatch or fire guard duties include patrolling their barracks area, watching for fires, cleaning the barracks and watching for recruits attempting to leave the barracks area. As a former Drill Sergeant, this was my favorite group to mess with. In basic training, the task is underwhelming, the privates are exhausted from standing in line all day for food, so it is easy to get complacent. Complacency is a huge risk when it comes to life or death situations, but is an easy mindset to fall victim to. So I just found creative ways to make sure firewatch did not become complacent. But don't worry, I had my fair share of fire guard shifts as a private too. I was one of those that didn't sleep anyways, so I would take other privates fire guard shits as well in exchange for money. I also could be hired to make bunks, fix wall locker displays, clean weapons. Again, we get bored easily. 

According to US Department of Forestry

A firewatch or a fire lookout stationed in a fire tower who keeps watch over a large area of forest and on sighting a fire notifies a dispatcher of its location. The actual job duties involved can vary some based on location. But we originally joined the Army to one day become a conservation officer, with Firewatch in between for a couple of years. Obviously that didn't happen literally, but we are starting to see how we stayed true to course 

We also started adding goats. Dairy goats for now, but soon to be meat goats as well. Goat milk is highly nutritious and can help nursing queens with milk production. The goats will also allow us to make our own soap and other dairy products. 

Nigerian Dwarfs have a high ass butterfat content, they are small and mighty, so they don't produce a lot of quantity. But don't worry, we have a plan for that... 

These are bigger donkeys, so they produce more milk, however it is lower in fat content. Don't you worry, we got a plan for that too! 

So we wanted a goat that would make enough milk to feed their kids, but also provide some extra for us. However, we did not want the expense of feeding big goats to get larger quantities of milk. The Nigerian Dwarf has a better feed conversion, and when combined with the Nubian to make the mini nubian you get the best of both worlds. They will produce more milk than a Nigerian Dwarf, with higher fat content than a Nubian, with a cheaper bill for dinner to boot. Plus we can't say no to those F-1 airplane ears! 

2025 we plan to add a couple of Kiko/Boer grow outs to come play on our jungle gym. 

The only breed of rabbits where their coat stands up on end. They are very docile, but we like the champagnes more. We still have some silver fox, including our broken doe, Mari, we love Mari. 

We got a lovely breeding trio of these guys because we weren't sure which one we were going to like more. Our d'argent line has so far proven to be of better quality than our Silver Fox. We still love their coat, so we will look for a different line to include more into the program. Luci is showing off her handy work on testing the build quality of the wonderful Dumor cages. 

But back to the guys at name here, these Champagne D'argents have had lovely temperaments, amazing mothering skills for first timers, and some desire to explore life more than the SF that just stare at the wall. Don't worry, we all have a cousin like that. 

Again we found ourselves dialing up the difficulty and adding an experimental color to the program. Mari has been the most excellent mother. 

Who saw this coming?... *nervous laughter*