About the worst thing that can happen in the depths of January is a two-day thaw accompanied by heavy rains. As sure as day follows night, all that lovely snow will be melted away only to turn into a sheet of ice when temperatures return to sub-freezing normal. With the right gear, I manage to […]
As if we didn’t have enough to do, an unseasonable blast of arctic weather has complicated matters here on the farm. We still have 50 broiler chickens on pasture that we had planned to begin processing this week. But we can’t run our chicken plucker when temperatures fall below freezing. On Friday we woke up […]
It snowed, it rained, then the bottom dropped out of the thermometer. Everything is coated in ice around here. Even the sheep and the Jersey heifer decided it was safer lying in a pile of hay than trying to walk in their frozen pasture. They look pretty funny, slowly picking their steps. Still, work on […]
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