I suspected it was a fox that executed the brazen, daylight attack on our chickens. And my suspicious were I believe confirmed the other day when I looked out the kitchen window and was startled to see a fox looking back at me from the ridge line leading to the upper pasture. But it wasn’t […]
Animals need pedicures too. Like human fingernails, hooves are always growing. In nature, hooves wear down on their own. In captivity, they often don’t get enough wear and grow too long. We take care of the sheep and goats with a pair of shears. When it comes to cows, however, we call a professional. Our […]
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It was a year ago I moved from D.C. to our farm property in Upstate New York and, frankly, I’ve been too busy lately to reflect much on this milestone. But I do think about it all the time. Why did we leave our home of so many years in the nation’s capital? Mainly, we […]
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