Archive for 'Other People's Pasture'
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: January 24th, 2007 by
Lisa
Last summer and fall, Valerie and Kevin cleared about half an acre, renting an escavator, pulling the trees out completely, so that it isn’t stumpy out there, which is great. There are still a few large brush piles out there, though. We tried to burn one this winter, and probably got two-thirds of it
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Posted under Fencing, Other People's Pasture, Pasture, Soil.
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Posted: January 15th, 2007 by
Lisa
Frank’s mother, Ginny, has been terrified of animals her whole life. She worked as a home economics instructor for Detroit Edison, and often visited houses to teach women how to use electric ovens and do lighting plans. She said she dreaded going to houses with animals. She is very nervous even around our cat. But
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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: January 15th, 2007 by
Lisa
In the late summer of 2005, the Quinns asked us to have our sheep help them reclaim a pasture, because their horses were cherry picking, and they’d seen the fabulous job the girls had done on our driveway. Since we were down to nothing and about ready to have to put them on hay, we
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