Animals
- Happy Chickens...abundant Eggs
In caring for my animals, I am always trying to find the "best way" of doing things. Each morning, I open up the chicken houses and allow the girls out for free ranging. After they have all hastily exited their houses, I clean their waterer, refill...
- Work Time, Play Time
We enjoyed a beautiful laid back weekend here on the farm,with temperatures in the 50's...a welcomed break from the frigid weather of the preceding two weeks! We spent most of the weekend catching up on outdoor choresalong with the usual farm chores...
- A Few Updates
Over the past few weeks I have told you a few stories...stories that need proper endings! First Moll Flanders.... Moll has decided that she is a free spirit and prefers to not "live" anywhere.So, every three days or so, Moll returns to the barn,eats...
- A Day In The Life
I thought I would take you along with me to do the morning chores. You'll have to bundle up, it's freezing outside. Ten degrees with a wind chill of much lower....we'll be out for about 2 1/2 hours, so dress warmly! A warm hat and warm, waterproof...
- Bitter Winter Winds
Winter arrived today with a frigid blast of wind and snow showers. This is our little A-frame cottage that serves as home on the farm until construction of our log home is complete. We have replaced the windows with ones that will match the log home's...
Animals
Checking In With Ginger and MaryAnn
These days if we want to see the porcine princesses,
we have to visit them in their winter palace.
It's been way too cold for pigs this past week.
They have been staying in their house,
nestled snugly in a bed of hay with a warm heat lamp radiating from above.
They leave on occasion by this little door...
but quickly return to their warm bed.
Their front door remains closed except for feeding time,
when I scale the fenced entrance and pick up piggy poop.
Normally these two are exceptionally clean,
however during the cold winter
manners go out the door....
and pooping in warm comfort wins over pooping outside in the frigid winds.
(So, twice a day I clean it all up for them.... spoiled girls!)
A note on Kunekune manure...
there is no bad odor as these gals are herbivores and eat nothing but hay and grass
and pelleted feed...
their manure is much like horse manure.
It must be tough for them during these wintry months.
These two are very social animals,
and the snowy weather keeps them from interacting with the other animals.
They do enjoy our visits at feeding time...
happily accepting not only the chow but the affection as well.
It snowed all day yesterday,
replaced last night by sleet and freezing rain.
Warmer temperatures are supposed to turn this precipitation to rain today.
And weirdly, it is to be 50 degrees this coming weekend.
(This past weekend it was 5 degrees!)
It's been a strange winter indeed.
I can hardly wait for my garden (above) to come back to life!
Spring is not that far away!
- Happy Chickens...abundant Eggs
In caring for my animals, I am always trying to find the "best way" of doing things. Each morning, I open up the chicken houses and allow the girls out for free ranging. After they have all hastily exited their houses, I clean their waterer, refill...
- Work Time, Play Time
We enjoyed a beautiful laid back weekend here on the farm,with temperatures in the 50's...a welcomed break from the frigid weather of the preceding two weeks! We spent most of the weekend catching up on outdoor choresalong with the usual farm chores...
- A Few Updates
Over the past few weeks I have told you a few stories...stories that need proper endings! First Moll Flanders.... Moll has decided that she is a free spirit and prefers to not "live" anywhere.So, every three days or so, Moll returns to the barn,eats...
- A Day In The Life
I thought I would take you along with me to do the morning chores. You'll have to bundle up, it's freezing outside. Ten degrees with a wind chill of much lower....we'll be out for about 2 1/2 hours, so dress warmly! A warm hat and warm, waterproof...
- Bitter Winter Winds
Winter arrived today with a frigid blast of wind and snow showers. This is our little A-frame cottage that serves as home on the farm until construction of our log home is complete. We have replaced the windows with ones that will match the log home's...