Our little family of sheeples is coming back together. Cocoa and Nellie are back home from the farm where they were being bred. The ram we chose for these girls is a Cormo/Suffolk cross with beautifully soft fleece. He should give some good sized lambs as well as some nice fleece. It would be lovely…
Month: November 2014
Time For A Change
We feed about 60 chickens, and lately we get about 5 eggs a day. Why so few? Because some of the girls are of an age they lay infrequently. And because it’s winter, a time to conserve resources for staying warm and surviving. Except our spoiled girls have a taj-ma-barn with timers set to mimic…
The Picture of Innocence
Watching us do evening chores. Opal is on the left and Rocco is on the right. 4.5 months old and so good about rules and routines.
Nesting
Our barn has 3 chicken pens, one of which was most recently used to quarantine the newest sheep. Each pen has walls made of chicken wire with roosts, nest boxes, a pop-door plus feed and water. Our chickens are spoiled. Ask anyone who’s seen them. They have more space than they need, automated lights and…
Meet Rocco
The expansion of our flock means we need more dogs to keep them safe. Lucky for us we had a litter of pups to choose from. This sweet guy takes after his dad in the laid-back and mellow department. He’s proving to be a quick study, needing only a couple gentle reminders about our basic…
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