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 […]
A year ago we had four feet of snow on the ground and temperatures testing record lows. You wouldn’t know it looking out the window. Our biggest snowfall this season occurred a couple of days ago–maybe two inches–and it’s already melted away as the mercury climbs past 50 degrees. El Nino? We’ll take it. According […]
The rain started yesterday and continued, hard, all night, winds howling up to 20 knots. I’d taken pity on the goats and moved them late in the afternoon into the main paddock where they’d be able to take cover under the three-sided shelter. Wouldn’t you know it, though. Three of the babies were laggards and […]
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