Archive for 'Kids'
Posted: August 6th, 2007 by
Lisa
Jeremy came over this weekend, and helped us knock together the frame of the horse structure. We busted our tail non-stop, and barely got enough done. We had a drop dead time of dark on Sunday to meet, and we did, but have so much more to go. We just covered the frame with
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Posted under Farm Life, Horse Housing, Horses, Injuries, Jeremy, Pearl, Polly, Prince.
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Posted: July 30th, 2007 by
Lisa
I almost afraid to say it, but we sort of kind of maybe made some progress this weekend. The sheep aren’t happy where they are, but they have lots of room out on the hill, three out of four sides are permanent fencing, and the last side is electronet, but because it’s a straight run,
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Posted under Bedding, Bjarki, Chicken Coop, Chickens, Farm Life, Fencing, Horse Housing, Horses, Jeremy, Manure, Sawmill, Sheep, Tractor, electronet.
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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.
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Posted: June 1st, 2007 by
Lisa
Oh, the times I wish I’d had a video camera with me. We moved the sheep down in Marlborough on Thursday, just up the hill a bit from where they were. They were acting like they were starving starving, but to be honest, we probably should have kept them where they were at least one
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Posted under Dogs, Farm Life, Other People's Pasture, Valerie, Wether, 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: February 27th, 2007 by
Lisa
We got quite a bit done of the chicken palace, I mean coop over the weekend. The weather on Saturday was awful, clear and cold, but really windy, so we didn’t do much outside at all. Sunday was gorgeous, though, and we made real progress pretty quickly. Having two cordless electric drills was a
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Posted under Bjarki, Building, Chicken Coop, Dogs, Drill, Farm Life, Hay, Injuries, Llama, Scrounged, Sheep, Valerie, Worms.
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Posted: February 19th, 2007 by
Lisa
Oh, Buster, the cutest sheep in all the world, why must you be a Houdini? We came out this morning for chores, to find Buster with a bloody horn and blood all over the side of his face. Frank was headed out for an appointment, of course, but helped me put him into the carrier
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Posted under Farm Life, Injuries, Rams, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep, Valerie, Wether.
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Posted: February 10th, 2007 by
Lisa
Minxy, Minxy. Somehow I seem to say that a lot these days, my girl. Mid-morning today, we had yet another sheepie breakout, and like I’d feared the last time, what I did was tell Minx exactly where the pellets were stored. That time, she’d gone around behind the house where they were stored last year,
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Posted under Farm Life, Princess, Sheep, Valerie.
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