We’ve had a bumper crop of lambs this week–twins everywhere you look. Right on schedule, too. We put the ewes in with the rams first of November, and five months later they’re delivering babies. But just as we were congratulating ourselves on such a mild winter (the animals have been grazing almost continuously for lack […]
It was bound to happen sooner or later. With all the snow piling up this winter, it finally over-topped the temporary fencing around the goat enclosure. I probably placed the fence too close to the driveway, because the snow plowed to the side bent the fence over and buried it. Finally, the goats figured out […]
It’s -19 degrees on the farm this morning and the weatherman says if this pattern holds through the rest of the month, this will be the second-coldest February on record in the Albany area. Worse than the cold, a ferocious wind blew yesterday, gusting at times up to 50 mph. Along with a fresh six […]
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