Archive for 'electronet'
Posted: October 3rd, 2007 by
Lisa
We had the oddest thing happen the other day. We’ve had the sheepies out working the side of driveway, all 800 feet long of it. It’s a really narrow strip, probably 12 feet wide. They do a great job on all the brambles and brush, and it’s one of the reasons we got them in
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Posted under Farm Life, Sheep, Visitors, electronet.
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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 23rd, 2007 by
Frank
Last night we put the sheep in an electronet paddock with the idea of moving them when Lisa’s cheese class is done. They stayed there until 11 this morning. Then the fence went down and they came out. I got everyone back in and topped up all the critter’s water. By the time I finished
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Posted under Chickens, Ewes, Farm Life, Fencing, Icelandic, Reviews, Sawmill, Sheep, electronet.
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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: 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 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 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: January 24th, 2007 by
Frank
After too much reading and fretting about logistics and safety for the chickens, I’ve decided to do something I understand and which matches our environment. I’m just going to build a dragable chicken coop which can follow the sheep around. We’ll have to let the chickens out in the morning and pen them up at
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Posted under Building, Chickens, Sawmill, electronet.
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Posted: January 15th, 2007 by
Lisa
Bucky is an older guy who lives in the village, about a mile away. We’ve been on waving relations since we moved here in 1990. He’s the local handyman, and we pass his house on our way to town. At different times, he’s had horses, chickens, and dogs, and it was normal for the chickens
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Posted under Other People's Pasture, electronet.
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