Just when things seemed to be going so smoothly, one of our yearling ewes experiences a terribly difficult pregnancy. After a full day’s labor, the premature and stillborn lamb refused to exit the womb. Only the top of its head was showing. I rolled up my sleeves and reached in to assist, finding that the […]
How do we know spring has arrived on the farm? We get a call from the post office to come pick up our broiler chicks. Somehow we missed the first call Thursday morning. Thursday afternoon the postal clerk called a second time rather frantically because they didn’t want the chicks–54 for of them in a […]
Tags:chickens
Our new boy calf, Del (short for Delmonico), celebrated his two-week anniversary yesterday and he seems to be doing just fine. When he isn’t nursing, he’s snoozing in a pile of hay or bounding around the paddock. He likes hanging with the sheep. They’re more his size. Maybe he thinks he IS a sheep. My […]
© 2010 The Slow Cook — Design by Keri Marion Design
