Archive for 'Death'
Posted: June 26th, 2008 by
Lisa
It often happens this way on the farm — someone dies and someone is born, both on the same day. Sadly, Misty died today from a ruptured spleen, delivered by a kick from our new male llama. We had let them get to know each other, and didn’t leave them alone until there was
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Posted under Death, Lambs, Llama.
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Posted: July 16th, 2007 by
Lisa
I’m discouraged, lately. I think we both are. The only thing that is really thriving is the bees. (Murphy — back off. We do not need to have something happen to them now, thanks!) The sheep are having huge parasite problems. Selina and Fiona both showed awful bottle jaw, so we were worming them frantically,
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Posted under Chicken Coop, Chickens, Death, Fencing, Jeremy, Off-farm Jobs, Sheep, Worms, electronet, illness.
Comments: 2
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 by
Frank
We brought the sheep home from Marlborough today. They’d gotten out three times in the last week and attacked their hostesses garden. Clearly not okay. And because it was a fencing issue, I had to go. That’s a 2-3 hour trip, and if I do it too often I lose the contract I’m working
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Posted under Death, Lambs, Other People's Pasture, Rams, Sheep, coyotes, electronet.
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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 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: January 1st, 2005 by
Frank
We had a sad start to the new year. Raven and Sue killed Panic overnight. We went out this morning to feed them, and he was dead in the pen. And now the two survivors seem to be getting along. (They’re still a mite prickly you understand, but no real fighting.) We’d started a thread
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Posted under Death, Icelandic, Rams, Shetland.
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Posted: March 15th, 2004 by
Lisa
Frank went out today to see if he could see any fish, and unfortunately found them all dead. Damn it. This is two years in a row that they haven’t made it through the winter, and this year we tried a pond heater. I don’t know how it’s going to fit into what is going to be a busy year this year, but we need to re-do the pond, because it clearly needs to be at least a foot deeper to be able to winter over fish. We aren’t willing to bring them in, so I guess there will be no fish this year until we get this figured out.
Posted under Death, Fish, Pond.
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