Up to now, my wife’s plans to add new designer eggs to our flock of laying hens had been going according to plan. “Chocolate” and “terra cotta” were the chosen new colors and to that end we had purchased 10 each of the Welsummer and Cocoo Maran breeds. They spent the allotted four weeks in […]
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It’s not true that goats will eat anything but they will eat trees and that can be a good thing or a bad thing. Goats especially love to strip the bark off young trees. That’s why we keep them out of the orchard at all costs. If they succeed in eating the bark all the […]
Got a call from the butcher last night to pick up the meat from the ram-ling we dropped off a week ago. Just in the nick of time, too: We’re serving leg of lamb for dinner tomorrow, the first taste of a ram grown on Spy Dog Farm. (I’m not counting the two three-year-old ewes […]
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