Archive for 'Pasture'
Posted: July 18th, 2008 by
Lisa
Almost two months ago, the loggers showed up and began our summer project of clearing what we hope turns out to be 15ish acres of new pasture for all of the critters. The plan was to go all the way up and down Mack Hill Road (about 1500 feet) and back about 600 feet. All
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Posted under Clearing, Pasture.
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Posted: January 6th, 2008 by
Lisa
We need pasture for our sheep and horses so badly! We also need wood for building sheds. Logs like this one that are too big for our sawmill will be road-sided along our driveway, and when we get enough to fill a logging truck, we’ll sell them. It’s dank and cold out there today.
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Posted under Clearing.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2007 by
Lisa
Even if you go over the edge, the thing to do the very next day is get right back in the saddle. Driving that tractor in the woods in deep snow is really not very fun, just for the record. I’m pretty good at maneuvering it around, but I don’t like it, and when
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Posted under Clearing, Firewood, Hay, Horses, Tractor, Töfradís.
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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 14th, 2007 by
Frank
We had ten inches of snow yesterday. That leaves about a foot on the ground and no reason to expect it to melt before April. Mike showed up and plowed, but for some reason didn’t seem to do as much as usual. This gave Lisa a reason to fire up the tractor and do
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Posted under Chickens, Clearing, Farm Life, Firewood, Snow.
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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 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: April 30th, 2007 by
Lisa
Kaytla, the ewe who had triplets, one still born, looks like she is developing mastitis. I noticed that one teat was twice the size of the other, and that both lambs were nursing on the other side. I asked on the ISBONA list to make sure I should intervene, and milked her out by hand
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Posted under Chicken Coop, Chickens, Ewes, Farm Life, Horse Housing, Horses, Lambs, Pasture, Rain, Reviews, Truck, mastitis, mega-catch.
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