Archive for April, 2007
Posted: April 30th, 2007 by
Lisa
Kaytla, the ewe who had triplets, one still born, looks like she is developing mastitis. I noticed that one teat was twice the size of the other, and that both lambs were nursing on the other side. I asked on the ISBONA list to make sure I should intervene, and milked her out by hand
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Posted under Chicken Coop, Chickens, Ewes, Farm Life, Horse Housing, Horses, Lambs, Pasture, Rain, Reviews, Truck, mastitis, mega-catch.
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Posted: April 24th, 2007 by
Lisa
Boy! What is it with us and boys this year?! Frank had to leave early this morning, so we were up and about way earlier than I usually am. I couldn’t resist walking out for a lamb check, though, and sure enough, there was Fiona, cleaning off this little guy. Yup, we saw huge horn
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Posted under Chickens, Dairy, Farm Life, Horses, Lambs, Sheep.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2007 by
Lisa
Kaytla started separating herself from the rest of the pen yesterday morning, though she did come out when the grain actually hit the feeder. We knew then, though, that she was probably going to lamb that day, as she never hides her leadersheep self, big bossy lady that she is. I must have done twenty
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Posted under Ewes, Farm Life, Lambs, Sheep.
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Posted: April 22nd, 2007 by
Lisa
What a day we had yesterday. Even this morning, we are still exhausted, and that’s with Valerie coming over to help. We are just absolutely wiped out. We started the day with the first lamb of the season. We went out in the morning to let the chickens out, and Frank came back
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Posted under Building, Farm Life, Firewood, Horse Housing, Horses, Lambs, Llama, Shearing, Sheep, Truck.
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Posted: April 20th, 2007 by
Lisa
I cannot begin to say how sick I was of snow. Snow, rain, more snow, lots of wind, flooding, rain and more snow. Uck. I had the ultimate case of cabin fever there for a while. Something about this last storm, which was long and miserable, just about did me in. Maybe I don’t
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Posted under Chainsaw, Clearing, Crocus, Farm Life, Honey Bees, Horses, Maple, Sheep.
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Posted: April 14th, 2007 by
Frank
Our four three-pound packs of bees arrived today. They usually show up a week or two late, but of course this year they came in right on time. Lisa was at a cheesemaking class, so I went down to Stonewall Farm to pick them up, after washing the hive-top feeders out with bleach to get
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Posted under Bees, Chickens, Collecting, Eggs, Honey Bees.
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Posted: April 11th, 2007 by
Lisa
I’m a bit tired of this prolonged winter. The snow was almost gone when we got this recent coldsnap and accompanying snow. The puppy loves it, of course, and I should be used to it, but we have so much to do that needs good weather that I’m getting frustrated. My to-do list just
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Farm Life, Garden Shed, Gardenporn, Greenhouse, Hatching, Horses, Reviews, Sheep, Sheep Sheds, Snow, Window Boxes, Yoda.
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Posted: April 6th, 2007 by
Frank
Right up front, Don’t get satellite internet if you can get DSL or cable. Don’t even think about it. If you can’t get DSL or cable, seriously think about a dedicated dial up line (personal), or a fractional T1 (business) as alternatives to satellite. It’s that bad. I’ll put a geek appendix at the end
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Posted under Farm Life, Tech Stuff.
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