Archive for 'Horse Housing'
Posted: September 23rd, 2007 by
Frank
It’s ten days since the last entry. There’ve been no big developments, but much that might be worth remembering in next year, or in 2010. We’ve continued to check for mushrooms every two or three days. We caught one more small flush of trumpets (and three chanterelles) in good time, and found the remains
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Chanterelles, Chipper, Farm Life, Horse Housing, Mushrooms, Sheep, illness.
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Posted: August 26th, 2007 by
Frank
This weekend has been hazy hot and humid. The kind you’d much rather spend at the lake. However we got quite a bit done. I actually got the sawmill running Friday night. A new blade finally got it working. We got four logs done, then I had to change the blade again, and it’s
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Posted under Back Hoe, Bees, Building, Chickens, Collecting, Eggs, Honey Bees, Horse Housing, Lily beetles.
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Posted: August 19th, 2007 by
Frank
I called SMG (who is now Champion) on Monday, and got some advice on the sawmill. (Yes, they now have bilingual tech support.) I’ll be writing some pages about maintaining the sawmill soon. There’s a lot that’s simply not in the manual. Anyway, the advice was on shimming to extend the length of the
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Posted under Farm Life, Honey Bees, Horse Housing, Horses, Mushrooms, Sawmill.
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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: May 8th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with
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Posted under Bjarki, Blackflies, Chickens, Death, Ewes, Farm Life, First Date Out, Horse Housing, Lambs, Llama, Mosquitos, Sawmill, Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, mega-catch.
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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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Posted: April 22nd, 2007 by
Lisa
What a day we had yesterday. Even this morning, we are still exhausted, and that’s with Valerie coming over to help. We are just absolutely wiped out. We started the day with the first lamb of the season. We went out in the morning to let the chickens out, and Frank came back
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Posted under Building, Farm Life, Firewood, Horse Housing, Horses, Lambs, Llama, Shearing, Sheep, Truck.
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