Archive for March, 2007
Posted: March 31st, 2007 by
Frank
I cleaned up the other two hives today. Both had pollen but no honey left. Also both had mice in residence. I’m unsure of what happened to the first one I cleaned up. It may have starved, but it may also have succumbed to XXX and then been robbed. The second I’m pretty sure died
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Posted under Collecting, Eggs, Farm Life, Hay, Honey Bees, Horses, Mice, Pearl, Prince.
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Posted: March 30th, 2007 by
Lisa
I’ve been so paranoid about how to get the rams back together that I’ve left them in their breeding pens and just not dealt with it. The girls are nearing their due dates, though, and are starting to get much hungrier, and the easiest way to deal with that was to get the pigs rams
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Posted under Farm Life, Rams, Red Scoop of Joy.
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Posted: March 28th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s all chickens, all the time, here lately. So far, we’ve hatched out 15 eggs. The first one came on day 19 after we put them in the incubator, so we were caught a little unprepared. We sort of assumed they would come on day 21. It said so on the label! It sounds
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Collecting, Eggs, Farm Life, Hatching.
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Posted: March 24th, 2007 by
Frank
I’ve gone through two of our four dead bee hives today, with two completely different results. The first was classic starvation: The hive top feeder was empty and there were no stores at all. This must have been one of the splits which didn’t get as well established as I thought. There
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Posted under Chickens, Eggs, Honey Bees, Mice.
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Posted: March 20th, 2007 by
Lisa
There was a shipping problem with my order of plugs from the Jollies. Just because last year I’d had them delivered to where I was in exile, they shipped them there again. The poor dears spent four days in unheated warehouses before finally being delivered to me today. There was only a bit of damage,
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Dogs, Ewes, Farm Life, Wind, Window Boxes, melampodium.
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Posted: March 19th, 2007 by
Frank
Outside work has slowed to a crawl this last week. The next round of must-do’s is for the pigs and bees in April, so even with the nice weather, we let the mud convince us to work indoors. Then we had a fine cold and snowy weekend. Once the blizzard had actually started, I
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Dogs, Eggs, Farm Life, Honey Bees.
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Posted: March 12th, 2007 by
Lisa
On Saturday, we took a ride over to Dancing Lamb Farm in New York to pick up our three new girls. Mike Kelley gave us a wonderful tour of her dairy operation, and since I need an article for the next ISBONA newsletter, I’m going to save all of those pictures and words for that
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Dogs, Ewes, Farm Life, Hay Hoop House, Llama, Rams, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep, Snakes.
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Posted: March 9th, 2007 by
Lisa
Adding chickens to the morning chores hasn’t been much of a change yet, but I guess that’s because there are only five of them, four hens and a rooster. It’s been really cold at night this week, getting down to -15 degrees, and when I went out to check on eggs yesterday, I
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Collecting, Dogs, Eggs, Farm Life, Hatching.
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Posted: March 7th, 2007 by
Lisa
It was a heck of a trip. All of our roadtrip photos are probably only interesting to us, but are uploaded here. We spent 2800 some odd miles, mostly admiring barns. Ooh, look at that one! Why can’t we have that? We hardly saw any animals at all on the trip, but the barns were
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Posted under Chickens, Farm Life.
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