“When do we mow the front yard?” my wife asked. “When it gets long enough,” I replied. I wasn’t trying to crack wise. But we’re not about a perfectly manicured lawn here on the farm. But then it occurred to me: Why mow when we have all these animals that love to eat grass? In […]
My wife and I are too old to have any more children. But yesterday we had our sheep shorn and discovered that three of our five Friesian ewes are expecting. With their winter wool coats on, there were no obvious signs of pregnancy. But once all that fleece was clipped away, the swollen bellies and […]
Something’s eating our chickens. Yesterday I noticed our flock of Rhode Island Reds seemed a little thin. It dawned on me that one of our two roosters was nowhere to be seen. Then, after visiting with the hens out in the orchard–just sitting on an overturned bucket and watching them scratch in the turf–I returned […]
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