Animals
- Thankful
Old Man Winter has cast his icy stare down upon us,pointed his finger and frozen our world. We still have not reached the record cold temperatures of the past two winters,but, it is the coldest to date for this year. This is not a complaint.I've...
- Did We Put Our Summer Clothes Away Too Soon?
Yesterday had us thinking twice about the decision to put our warm weather clothesaway for the year! With temperatures approaching 70 degrees,the goats were wishing they could take off their thick wooly winter coats. Hang in there, kids...Old Man Winter...
- Catastrophe!!
It's a cruel world we live in...here on the edge of the woods. We suffered a horrible loss in the brooder house Tuesday night.Yesterday morning we found three decapitated chicklets in the house.We have no other evidence of what transpired except the...
- A Day Off
Yesterday was my "day off" from farm chores.Wednesdays are my day to run errands, drive to the city to see "Mom",and just generally accomplish all that I don't have time for on a regular day. I can do this with complete peace of mind thanks to our...
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
This has been the coldest December that I can remember. Our Decembers are usually temperate...and snow for Christmas is often a long shot. However, it looks like the snow on the ground will still be around for the holidays. The snow on the ground makes...
Animals
No Shortage of Winter Coats Around Here
After several days of what felt like a heatwave
(high temperatures actually reached the 20's)...
we have plummeted back down to almost zero again.
Thank you, very much.
I truly have just not had enough cold yet this winter.
(kidding)
Our snow seems to be disintegrating a little...
rather than melt, however, I think it is just evaporating with this cold, dry air.
I often get questions regarding the state of the animals in this weather.
Luckily, my chicken houses stay toasty warm thanks to heat lamps.
The horses and donkeys don't seem to have fared bad at all with the cold...
they continue to eat their way through it.
The pigs are toasty in their heated stall...
burrowed into a nest of hay.
And the goats?
Well....check out their winter coats.
O'Malley looks more like a sheep than a goat with her wooly coat.
As does her daughter Sally....
and Dot who is busily polishing off the Christmas tree...
Even O'Malley's sons Donald,
and Fred, who have smoother, hair-like coats have a second layer of wooly warmth beneath.
The goats don't even seem to notice the cold!
We still have enough hay,
and more to be delivered....
so we should make it through this winter just fine.
We'll keep the fireplace burning and a pot of soup on the stove..
so come on, Winter...
bring it on.
Spring is just around the corner
(or maybe the next).
- Thankful
Old Man Winter has cast his icy stare down upon us,pointed his finger and frozen our world. We still have not reached the record cold temperatures of the past two winters,but, it is the coldest to date for this year. This is not a complaint.I've...
- Did We Put Our Summer Clothes Away Too Soon?
Yesterday had us thinking twice about the decision to put our warm weather clothesaway for the year! With temperatures approaching 70 degrees,the goats were wishing they could take off their thick wooly winter coats. Hang in there, kids...Old Man Winter...
- Catastrophe!!
It's a cruel world we live in...here on the edge of the woods. We suffered a horrible loss in the brooder house Tuesday night.Yesterday morning we found three decapitated chicklets in the house.We have no other evidence of what transpired except the...
- A Day Off
Yesterday was my "day off" from farm chores.Wednesdays are my day to run errands, drive to the city to see "Mom",and just generally accomplish all that I don't have time for on a regular day. I can do this with complete peace of mind thanks to our...
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
This has been the coldest December that I can remember. Our Decembers are usually temperate...and snow for Christmas is often a long shot. However, it looks like the snow on the ground will still be around for the holidays. The snow on the ground makes...