Guys, it finally happened, we got chickens! We got word last week that we’d definitely be getting chicks from our neighbor, so we got to work converting half of our …
Animals
All of the productivity of a summer can seem to disappear in the blink of an eye. And we did have a mostly busy and productive summer, almost right up …
I need your time – just a moment of it! One of our puppies has need of a new set of hips! Because we’ve already written the story out, I’ll …
Hello readers! My best intentions to write regularly always fall apart when life happens and I have things to write about. We have been steadily getting ready for winter, like …
It has been a whirlwind summer. The garden went in, with many lessons learned through the whole season. In early July, we got enough of the fencing done to put …
Used to never be able to use the wifi at my farm until I moved my router to the barn. Now I have a stable connection. I have never been …
Once the does were settled and healthy, it was time to search for a buck. I’m aiming – as crazy as it sounds – for January kids. With a 5 …
The benefits of electric fencing for livestock far, far, outweigh the jolt an animal (or careless, or acting on a dare, human) receives on contact with a wire. Electric fences …
I fell in love with Rottweilers longer ago than I want to think about, but only started caring for one, 6 years ago. Our Artemis is a wonderful companion – …
I am so impatient to start building up the farm part of our farm. A small part of that is because I know that we have a whole lot of …
2005 was the last time we had chickens, eek! My middle son was a year old, and my youngest hadn’t been born. He’s never held a chick before. *hangs head* …