Farm update
Posted on February 18, 2010 - Filed Under animals, babies, birthday, chickens, farm maintenance, planting, seeds, vegetables, weather | 1 Comment
Freezing! Temperature was 24 degrees. It actually snowed last Friday night for about 20 minutes. Everyone inside is bundled in blankets. Everyone outside is bundled in hay.
New Baby goat born on my birthday! Her name is Millie. She’s multi-colored. Photos to come, promise. She had a twin brother, but he mysteriously disappeared one night. No [...]
You Can’t Keep A Good Garden Down
Posted on November 15, 2009 - Filed Under Activism, cabbage, farm maintenance, planting, sunflowers, tomatoes, vegetables | Leave a Comment
Despite my best efforts to ignore it, the garden just will not go away! I haven’t hoed or sown or watered in months (just don’t ask), yet still hot peppers, green & yellow bell peppers, chinese eggplant, sunflowers and even tomatoes are still popping up. Amazing.
I also have bottle gourds and one, just [...]
9…10…a big fat hen
Posted on August 23, 2009 - Filed Under animals, birds, chickens, cooking, farm maintenance, goats, ick! | 1 Comment
Today we traded 2 female goats for 10 chickens: 4 live layers, 6 frozen. The 4 new laying hens are a bit older than our current chickens and have already laid 3 brown eggs: 1 is your typical small grade egg, the other 2 are like mini egg-size, but edible. They’ll [...]
Read More..>>Thinning the herd
Posted on August 21, 2009 - Filed Under animals, farm maintenance, goats, inbreeding, this sucks! | Leave a Comment
Oh sad days.
I’ve finally committed to reducing our goat population. I’m such a sentimental fool, I cry over an old goat! I put an ad in Craigs List and a gentleman came and took 2 of the males: Peanut and our new baby, Bolt. Peanut wasn’t too hard to say goodbye too as he was/is [...]
Goat Stress
Posted on July 4, 2009 - Filed Under animals, babies, donkey, farm maintenance, goats, names, this sucks! | Leave a Comment
I don’t know who is more traumatized at this point…us or the goats? I realized I hadn’t yet related this story probably because I was just so over it. But in memoriam, and to keep a healthy mind and heart, here goes.
Goats are actually pretty hearty and independent creatures. The only real problems we’ve had: [...]
How to teach a new chick old tricks
Posted on July 4, 2009 - Filed Under animals, chickens, farm maintenance | Leave a Comment
Chickens do not come with instruction manuals. Nor do they come pre-programmed to know what to do or not do. Although they should. There is a theory that sense has been bred out of many animals, including chickens. Most chicks nowadays are shipped in shell or just hatched in a box and grow up with [...]
Read More..>>Peep
Posted on July 4, 2009 - Filed Under animals, building, chicken feed, chickens, farm maintenance, news, tractor | 1 Comment
Meet the newest members of our brood. Finally, new chickens! 36 35 34 (eeks, one didn’t get out of the way of the waterer in time and one was pecked to death. I’ll spare you the gory details) of varying breeds: mostly Americanas mixed with Rhode Island Reds and Goldens. [...]
Read More..>>Neither rain, nor wind…um, scratch that
Posted on May 24, 2009 - Filed Under farm maintenance, seeds, vegetables, weather | 2 Comments
So, it’s been a while since my last post. Reasons: I’ve been technologically repressed (my laptop was kaput, but no more) and environmentally depressed (rain, wind, more rain, more wind, tornado, rain, wind, cold snap, rain, wind, wind).
So spring sprung…hooray! Through February and March, John and I had been maniacally planting seedlings [...]
Hoe there girl
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under Activism, farm maintenance, food safety, grass, neighbors, pests, planting, plows, seeds, tractor, vegetables | 1 Comment
After my hectic morning yesterday, I decided to spend the afternoon in the relative safety of the pasture garden-to-be. Our neighbor came over the other day and harrowed the area for us to help get the clumps of grass and weeds somewhat under control so there is room for the plants we prefer to [...]
Read More..>>Friday the 13th Part 2
Posted on March 13, 2009 - Filed Under animals, dog, donkey, farm maintenance, goats, horse, moon, superstition, trees | 3 Comments
Thankfully, no Jason or whoever involved.
I don’t consider myself a superstitious person, yet apparently, I am. I don’t walk under ladders. I prefer black cats don’t cross my path. I always throw a pinch of salt over my shoulder when spilled. And though Friday the 13 really isn’t that big a [...]