Archive for 'Bjarki'
Posted: April 10th, 2008 by
Lisa
Flickr is now allowing short video clips. I finally figured out how to make my camera take a video and what software to use to get it to Flickr. (All by myself! Go me.) If I can link them properly in the same fashion, here are some clips from yesterday. I still need to get several critters to perform on command, so stay tuned, and hope for better weather. It’s horribly windy and cold out there today.
Posted under Birds, Bjarki, Chickens, Critters, Dogs, Ewes, Geese, Icelandic, Llama, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Shetland, Turkeys, Töfradís, Wether, videos.
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Posted: March 27th, 2008 by
Frank
Our next expansion arrived yesterday and today: Sixteen Pekin ducks and ten Toulouse geese yesterday, 26 White Midget turkeys today. The ducks and geese spent the night in the living room while the woodstove warmed the basement. Today everyone went downstairs. They’re all set up with gamebird starter and water, on a bed of
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Posted under Bjarki, Ducks, Geese, Seed Starting, Turkeys, maple syrup.
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Posted: December 21st, 2007 by
Lisa
I sure seem to have a knack for getting the tractor stuck in ditches or foundation holes, or in the mud or snow. Wow. It sucks. I was pulling a pine log for the newly established pulp wood pile, misjudged where the ditch was, and got it good and stuck. Frank tried using the
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Posted under Bjarki, Clearing, Farm Life, Tractor, Töfradís.
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Posted: December 20th, 2007 by
Lisa
We logged for a while this afternoon, despite the snow. It was that sort of gentle snow, with fat, fluffy flakes, and the temp was just below freezing, with no wind, so why not. Frank found a trucker, and he thought my idea of using the long driveway to roadside next to would work
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Clearing, Pigs, Töfradís.
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Posted: December 19th, 2007 by
Lisa
One of the (thousand) times I was walking the puppy today, I was pretty sure I heard what sounded like an eggaluyah. But since I had the (naughty) puppy with me, I didn’t want to take her into the coop to find out, so I just told Frank. I was right. (I speak chicken!)
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Eggs, Pigs, Sheep, Töfradís.
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Posted: December 18th, 2007 by
Lisa
Bjarki had a great time today, introducing the new pup to all of the farm animals. She is just a fearless little thing. Everyone wanted to meet her, too. Doppa and Sue were the two sheep most interested, but she went under every fence, into every pen, to at least take a look. I
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Llama, Pigs, Sheep, Töfradís.
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Posted: December 17th, 2007 by
Lisa
We’re going to call her Deeza, for short. She’s an Icelandic Sheepdog, like Bjarki, and I just picked her up today. She’s a little spitfire! Soft and fluffy and quite brave. Today has been all about picking her up at the airport and bringing her home, and working with her and Bjarki to co-exist. That’s going pretty well, actually, mostly because she is so brave. She’s just recently weaned, too, so keeps rooting all over, poor thing. So now we have a male and female purebred Icelandic Sheepdog. Woo!
Posted under Bjarki, Töfradís.
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Posted: December 16th, 2007 by
Lisa
It was really hard to motivate myself to get out there and do morning chores this morning. At 7 a.m., it was 11°F with 18 mph winds, steady snow, at about an inch an hour rate. But we bundled up, long johns and double socks underneath my ski suit, and Frank put on
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Evening Grosbeak, Food, Horses, Polly, Prince, Snow.
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Posted: December 11th, 2007 by
Lisa
We took a rather disappointing trip over to a feed store in Vermont, to see if their prices were cheaper, since they were right on the railroad line. It turns out they are the same as the (very high) prices we are finding in Keene, which is really disappointing. I’ve got to source some more
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Posted under Bjarki, Farm Life, Food, Pigs, Polly, Sheep.
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Posted: December 9th, 2007 by
Lisa
We’ve been pretty lucky, in that we can leave the puppy outside to play for an hour or two without much bother. He mostly hangs out with Misty, and I have got to get a picture of the two of them playing. He will bring her his ball, and she will push it with
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Posted under Bjarki, Building, Chickens, Farm Life, Llama, Pigs, Sheep.
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