If you raise your own livestock and care at all about planning pregnancies then at a certain point the boys have to be separated from the girls. Our boy goat, Tigger, has the best of this arrangement. He gets to spend his days grazing with the sheep and his true love interest, Jersey heifer Emily. […]
Our new layer chicks have spent six weeks in the brooder. It’s high time they moved outside. We’ve got another group of 50 broiler chicks arriving tomorrow so we need that brooder. Moving the chicks is easier said than done. Catching them inside the brooder–a box five feet square with a wire mesh lid–proves to […]
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These are high times on the farm. The grass is up to my thighs. The clover is blooming. And the livestock are grazing their fill. One question hangs over all: Will there be enough grass in the pasture to see us through the dry times this summer? My day begins around 5 when I try […]
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