Snowy morning yesterday. Day for loading up the piggles. Usually we have them getting acquainted with the trailer for two or three days before the big day, but John was having some trouble with the wiring… so it was dark before the trailer gate was closed, but we could hear them happily sucking up the [...]
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Snow and pork
Posted in Farming, Pigs, Seasons, Weather, tagged Large Black pigs, pork, winter on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Speaking of goats…
Posted in Farm, Farming, LaMancha Goats, goats, tagged breeding, Elvis, goat behavior, goats on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With all this talk about sheep breeding groups, I have left our poor LaMancha dairy goats out of the equation. Even though we have very flexible fencing and paddock areas, I have been scratching my head over how to get the goats together as a group with a buck, and just let them get down [...]
Long Week Over
Posted in Farming, Food, LaMancha Goats, Lambs, Sheep, tagged butcher, Kyra's Boy on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a long week. A tough week. Still not feeling on top of the lingering chest cold and then of course everything changes so quickly when it’s breeding and butcher season. Kyra’s Boy’s departure left a big gap as he was always our meeter and greeter at the house, and then to top it [...]
Harvest Day and Goodbye to Kyra’s Boy
Posted in Farming, Food, Gardens, Sheep, tagged beets, harvest, Kyra's Boy, potatoes, rams on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Aside from having been really sick with this blasted chest cold, today turned out to be a beautiful day. The sun was shining and the leaves are looking gorgeous, and it was so warm that I traded my turtleneck and my vest for a t-shirt. We decided that it was time to harvest all of [...]
Autumn is really here
Posted in Farming, Gardens, Seasons, Weather, tagged frost on September 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday morning it was 30 F. at our house. Luckily, John had taken some of our shearing sheets and covered as much of the garden as he could… so we came through the first frost of the season quite well. We didn’t cover the potatoes and the leeks, but there are a couple of trees [...]
Maine Fiber Arts Tour Open House
Posted in Farm, Farming, Fiber Arts, tagged Coopworth sheep, goats, Maine on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend we are participating in the Maine Fiber Arts Tour weekend open house. We are part of the two-year tour map, so anyone is welcome to give us a call and come by at any time, but this weekend is set aside as a formal Open House.
We got really lucky with the weather, [...]
Sheep Doctoring Update
Posted in Farming, Sheep, tagged rams on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s 6 days since we had Kyra’s Boy at the vet for his leg ailment. He seems to be coming along; the leg is less swollen and it’s draining a lot less. He’s on the heavy-duty meds, eating well, and is taking it easy, but calling for his meals from his sickbed! [...]
Lobster and Shrimp to the Rescue!
Posted in Cheese, Farming, Maine, Pemaquid Peninsula, chickens, tagged lobster, shrimp, traps, chicken crates on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We have been scrimping on everything these days as, like everyone else, we are trying to make ends meet and make do with less. We try to think creatively, and recently we feel we really got onto something good! When we take our chickens to the butcher we need to put them into [...]
Sheep Doctoring. In the Rain (what a surprise).
Posted in Farming, Sheep, Weather, tagged rain, rams, vets on July 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I feel like Nurse Nina this week. Our beloved ram, Kyra’s Boy, has been ailing. Late last week he was down in the pasture with his alter-ego, Mr. Big, when we found that he had a swollen and lame back leg. Usually we see a lame front leg if one of the sheep or goats [...]
Out to Pasture
Posted in Farming, Maine, Sheep, Weather on July 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is the back of John’s truck awhile ago when we actually had a break in the rain. We had had to dig our rolls of electric fence out of the field where they had been rolled and stacked last fall, and then snowed upon before we got them home. If it looks [...]
