On Tuesday I gave our Jersey cow Emily the last in a series of hormone shots to get her pregnant and wouldn’t you know the needle was bent and I watched precious drops of that magic elixir spill onto the ground. Would 10 days of “synchronizing” Emily be for naught. Eighteen hours later, our local […]
Our friend who delivers our eggs to his co-workers in Albany says they are “in revolt” over not receiving any for the past several weeks. I try to explain that our chickens are molting, slowing egg production to a trickle. Normally we can count on collecting nearly two dozen a day. Now we’re lucky to […]
In a lot of ways, October is the toughest month for us here on Spy Dog Farm. The pastures have been fairly eaten down, but it’s not hay season yet. The boy goat is still separated from the girl goats, the boy sheep from the girl sheep. Hormones are raging, but we still have three […]
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