Month: January 2017

Eggs Away!

Well, the weather didn’t cooperate for a decent picture today (snowing too hard). But the good news is that our formerly depressing egg production rate has increased dramatically! Last weekend the coop got a thorough cleaning and we upgraded our feed to the most natural currently available to us. But I think the biggest factor …

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Picture of the Day 

I have no idea when Irene became so friendly. She kept trying to eat my hand – maybe she was expecting some animal crackers. But even then, she used to snatch them and run. 

Picture of the Day 

Apparently I happened to show up just in time to catch everyone napping.  Buttercup was too quick for me though.

Farmer’s Market polls

There has been talk of growing an heirloom garden this summer, and potentially bringing some of our harvest to a local farmer’s market.  Maybe we’re not ready this coming year, but someday we’d like to try it.  What we want to know is, what do people like best when they buy produce at a farmer’s …

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Picture of the Day 

I love my sheepies. But somehow our Jersey ladies are so much more photogenic. The freezing rain we’ve been having is really messing with our ewes’ do’s.  Oh heck, have two Pictures of the Day. Irene, tres chic!

New Babies!

The blog is WAY behind, largely due to two things… lack of technology (hopefully now remedied) and BABIES! Duchess was due with an unexpected calf (unexpected in the sense that we brought her home believing it fairly unlikely that she had been bred) on October 17th. Fortunately, she went overdue, considering our family was expecting …

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Picture of the Day

Mama’s got a brand new phone, complete with camera. So, in hopes of learning how to use this newfangled contraption, I’m planning to post a picture each day. Enjoy! So this is technically yesterday, but I’ve got to start somewhere, right?