Archive for May, 2007
Posted: May 27th, 2007 by
Lisa
I worry that I will jinx it, but we may have actually gone a whole day with the pigs not getting out. Excuse me while I rejoice. We even went to town (for so much crap for the farm!), and everyone was in the right pen when we got back. Even Misty. Pigs are
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Posted under Bleeding Heart, Farm Life, Gardening, Horses, Llama, Newts, Rain, Sheep, Weeding, Wind, electronet.
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Posted: May 26th, 2007 by
Lisa
Poor thing. She just hates everyone and everything right now. I’m trying to coddle her as much as I can, to not add to her stress. The current theory with what killed Mary is an overrun of a common bacteria that lives in their respiratory tract, and that can be caused by stress. The vet
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Posted under Chickens, Collecting, Compost, Eggs, Farm Life, Llama, Pearl, Pigs, Potatoes, Prince, Raised Beds, Red Scoop of Joy, Snakes, Tomatoes, Turtle, Valerie, Vegetables, illness.
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Posted: May 24th, 2007 by
Lisa
We took the truck into town yesterday, so we could visit Wellscroft Farm to pick up some electrical tape and portable fencing to use for the horses, for a hopeless search for heirloom tomato plants, and to visit the new Cheshire Horse store. Dave showed me how to stop the puppy from barking while he
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Posted under Chickens, Eggs, Farm Life, Fencing, Jeremy, Lambs, Llama, Pigs, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep, Truck, Valerie.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2007 by
Frank
Last weekend was the big push to bring the horses home. Jeremy asked Lisa what she wanted for Mother’s Day, and her response was “help”. Since she actually spent Mother’s Day at the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival, he arranged to come over the next weekend. Of course, it then rained hard all day,
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Posted under Building, Farm Life, Honey Bees, Horses, Jeremy, Sheep, Valerie.
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Posted: May 21st, 2007 by
Frank
My work machine was in the shop last week, so Friday, Lisa and I went to pick up our pigs. We got them from Kingbird Farm over near Ithaca New York. We now have two registered Tamworth gilts, three barrows (that’s a castrated boar) and an unregistered gilt that the seller warned us not
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Posted under Farm Life, Pigs, Trailer, Truck, electronet.
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Posted: May 19th, 2007 by
Lisa
Marilyn had a little ram lamb, in the same pattern of most of the other lambs of the season, moorit badger-faced. Marilyn is June’s twin, and too was on probation with us. She had a single ewe lamb two years ago when Kevin and Valerie were farm sitting as we’d gotten sent out of
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Posted under Ewes, Farm Life, Icelandic, Lambs, Llama, Other People's Pasture, Rams, Sheep.
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Posted: May 18th, 2007 by
Frank
The vet called yesterday with the results of the necropsy (that’s a veterinary autopsy) on Mary. The immediate cause of death was septic shock due to a systemic infection of streptococcus zooepidemicus (phonetic spelling on the species). This bacterium is found in the mucous membranes of all ruminants. and it’s known to cause “Alpaca Fever”
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Posted under Death, Farm Life, Llama, mega-catch.
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Posted: May 10th, 2007 by
Frank
I’ve wondered for much of my life why I have to be so careful to correctly tie a square knot rather than a granny when it seems that others get them right effortlessly. I have the same trouble with some other kinds of knots ,too. Sometime over the weekend, I had a rush of brains
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Posted under Blackflies, Farm Life, Honey Bees, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Reviews, mega-catch.
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Posted: May 8th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with
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Posted under Bjarki, Blackflies, Chickens, Death, Ewes, Farm Life, First Date Out, Horse Housing, Lambs, Llama, Mosquitos, Sawmill, Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, mega-catch.
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Posted: May 5th, 2007 by
Frank
We did the three week check on the new bees today. We suited all the way up this time, and needed to use the smoker on all of the hives. We added syrup to three of the top-feeders. One of them didn’t need it. All hives look healthy and fairly happy. All the hives had capped brood. They seemed to be showing different levels of enthusiasm for drawing comb. One seemed to have done very little, one was ready for its second hive body already. Of course that one had started with probably the best comb of all of them. We’ll be checking again in two weeks, not three, because I have hopes that at least one more hive will be ready then, and we for sure do not want a swarm.
Posted under Farm Life, Honey Bees.
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