Animals
- A Tidbit As Promised
Just a quickie today....an update on our dear Rosalie.(You remember...she is our elderly chicken who was almost pecked to an early demise.) Rosalie is doing quite nicely, living at the barn.In fact, she has a suitor... Milford!It seems our handsome Milford...
- Talking Turkey
With all of the rain we have experienced this summer,I had feared that we would lose our grape harvest.At one point, it seemed as if the grapes were rotting before they ripened. This weekend I happened to notice this.... We have grapes to harvest!...
- Feeling Their Oats
We are enjoying our second straight week of cool nightsand temperate days.And everyone around here is "feeling their oats!" The horses go out to pasture early in the morning. Because of the cooler weather, they enjoy kicking up their heels a bit.And...
- A Honey Of A Harvest
This Spring has been terrific for our one remaining beehive.We have a very strong queen bee who has tons of developing brood,and ever-toiling worker bees (females of course!!) who are packing the hive with delicious honey. There was so much honey...
- Honey Harvest Time Is Here
Honey harvest time has finally arrived at Bee Haven Acres. This year's unusual weather patterns have caused a bit of a honey shortage, but a couple of our hives are ready to have their extra honey extracted. Check back after the weekend for pictures...
Animals
Hay Here, Hay There, Hay Everywhere!
If you have read my blog for a while,
then you will know that what I am about to tell you I say with great jubilation!
We have hay.
Dry hay.
Hay that will be baled by the end of the day.
The end of worries about animal feed for winter.
Hay.
I cannot tell you how difficult it has been these two past years to harvest any decent hay.
Why?
In a word....weather!
It seems that finding 4 straight days of sun, light wind, and low humidity
here in central PA in the summertime has been next to impossible.
And yet... it has happened!!
So, today we will be hauling bales of hay and filling the barn.
(really hard work...exhausting!)
Tomorrow?
Honey harvest.
I'll share pics of that on Monday.
And before I leave you for the weekend,
a Milford update.
It seems our little friend has fallen into a pretty good daily routine.
Up with the sun.
Visiting with the hens at the henhouse.
Back to the barn a couple times a day for meals.
Back to the hens until bedtime.
Bedtime in the barn... in a comfy cat bed, with head on pillow.
Poor spoiled rooster!
We should all have it so good.
Truly.
Now that the fainting goats are in the big pasture,
Sammy has access to them for the first time.
For some reason he loves skulking around... sniffing their bowls.
The goats are wary and keep all of their eyes on him while he's in the pasture.
Little do they know that Sammy is completely harmless....
and a little freaked out by them!
Now, out I go to clean the honey extractor (centrifuge) and all of the equipment
we will need for tomorrow's honey harvest...
then later today... baling hay.
YAY!
Have a wonderful weekend...
we'll be back on Monday with more Tails from the Farm.
- A Tidbit As Promised
Just a quickie today....an update on our dear Rosalie.(You remember...she is our elderly chicken who was almost pecked to an early demise.) Rosalie is doing quite nicely, living at the barn.In fact, she has a suitor... Milford!It seems our handsome Milford...
- Talking Turkey
With all of the rain we have experienced this summer,I had feared that we would lose our grape harvest.At one point, it seemed as if the grapes were rotting before they ripened. This weekend I happened to notice this.... We have grapes to harvest!...
- Feeling Their Oats
We are enjoying our second straight week of cool nightsand temperate days.And everyone around here is "feeling their oats!" The horses go out to pasture early in the morning. Because of the cooler weather, they enjoy kicking up their heels a bit.And...
- A Honey Of A Harvest
This Spring has been terrific for our one remaining beehive.We have a very strong queen bee who has tons of developing brood,and ever-toiling worker bees (females of course!!) who are packing the hive with delicious honey. There was so much honey...
- Honey Harvest Time Is Here
Honey harvest time has finally arrived at Bee Haven Acres. This year's unusual weather patterns have caused a bit of a honey shortage, but a couple of our hives are ready to have their extra honey extracted. Check back after the weekend for pictures...