Every morning I walk down the hill and am greeted by two of the most wonderful horses I could ask for. Badger usually nickers his hello while Ace screams like an idiot. Ace gets to wait in his stall in the morning while Badger helps me count scoops to ensure that I correctly count everyones breakfast. After everyone is all snug eating their breakfast I usually sit in the tack room on the stacked pine shaving bales while the horse…
Over the weekend we got so much accomplished to finish up before winter comes. It happened that a warm front is passing through so we were thinking about the coming winter on an almost 80 degree day. Sunday morning we woke up early and got Lola pig into her travel box to take her to the butcher on Monday morning. We chose to do this early so that not only would my Mom and I have Jeff’s help but if…
It’s the middle of October which means we are finishing the last few items on the winter is coming list. We have all the pieces to put together the chicken and rabbit shelter for winter and will be doing that hopefully within the next week. The pig is going to the butcher Monday with two of the lambs. We will be repurposing the box we brought Miss Purdy home in to bring the pig to the butcher. The project for…
Fall has officially arrived and so have my first eggs from my girls! I got the first two eggs from them Wednesday and the third from them today. We have six hens total three production red hens and three buff orpington hens and I am finally getting some eggs. They are on the smaller side but thats ok for their first eggs. We are planning to put together their winter enclosure that will also house Pete either this weekend or…
I thought that my husband’s workshop needed a nice barn square to have on it. It took me about two weeks to paint this carpenters square for his barn and I am extremely pleased with how it turned out! Next year we plan to paint his shop barn red which will really make this barn square pop.
I may look like an adult who is all grown up but in reality I might just be a little girl at heart whose dreams have come true. Growing up I asked for a horse again and again. At christmas I always joked when guessing what my presents were that it would be a pony. I dreamed of having a beautiful farm with a border collie and some sheep. Well I did get my farm, dog, sheep, and horses and…
We are in the home stretch of moving to the farm. All the animals are present and accounted for as well as settled in nicely to their new souroundings. There are still a couple things left to do before winter like getting all the hay for sheep and horses here and covered. We also have to arrange in the next month getting two of the meat lambs processed as well as the pig for winter meat for ourselves. I cannot…
I thought I would give a general update on the farm for everyone today. Lola the pig and I have come to an understanding, which is Lola isn’t allowed to taste me or eat me when I go into her enclosure and I will continue to feed her. Instead of charging me and trying to taste me she now will stand on the other side of her pen while I feed her and change her water. I know this is…
The most useful farm tool that I have is by far our Border Collie Gus, he proves to be helpful more than I can count. I know that if the sheep we’re to get out that I wouldn’t have to much trouble getting them back with Gus’s help (Purdy is another story) which is a load off my mind. This morning when I went down to do morning chores I saw that Jenny one of the brown spotted ewes had…
Purdy our guard llama has been here about a week now and I couldn’t be more pleased with her! She bonded very quickly with her sheep especially Ewestace, they all sleep together in the shelter at night even though I no longer shut them in. Every time I go down to give Purdy her breakfast or dinner she always comes right over to the fence as I am walking down to make sure it isn’t a threat to her sheep….