You have to be careful what you wish for on the farm. Deep in the throes of winter, you yearn for warmer days and maybe a little green grass. Of course, that day arrives soon enough, and with it a whole lot of work you didn’t have to do when there was two feet of […]
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 […]
Apparently we never got the memo explaining that cows have to be trained to milk. Like most neophytes, I suppose, we just assumed when it came time to making cheese and butter and yogurt and all those other great dairy products our cow after giving birth would calmly stand there munching her hay while we […]
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