Animals
- It Takes A Village
The last several days' beautiful spring weather has given us the opportunityto accomplish quite a few tasks on the spring chore list.Some tasks, like staining the pirate ship and outdoor furniture is easily done by one person.Other tasks take a village....
- Piggy Pudding For All
I was in the feed room yesterday afternoon getting everyone's dinner ready.Being Christmas, I had brought a bag of carrots to the barn with me...so that everyone had special Christmas treats with their dinner. Across the aisle from the feed room...
- Harvesting Carrots And Squabbling Goats
I am so excited this year by our carrots.If you remember, when I ordered seeds, I orderedred and purple carrots.These might just be my new favorite vegetable! If you have grown carrots, then you know what a challenge harvesting them can be....especially...
- Happy Manure Year!!
You might remember me discussing equine parasites over the past few months. Much to my horror, I found bot eggs on the Bigs' and Little's front legs this past autumn. Dr. Becky advised me to wait until after a good freeze and then...
- Faqs
Some of you have read my blog from almost the beginning.....a few years ago. And some of you have joined the fun along the way. Quite often I get questions about Becky and "who" she is. Becky is Hubbs' younger sister. Becky, or Dr. Becky as I sometimes...
Animals
Vaccination Day
With the help of Dr. Becky, we make keeping our animals vaccinated
a priority.
Frontline application and heart worm prophylaxis are a monthly task.
Yesterday it was time for the piggies to get their vaccinations.
Ginger and MaryAnn have never been a problem to vaccinate.
They are so very motivated by food that if you have a treat to occupy them,
you can do just about anything to them.
While they don't enjoy their vaccinations, they tolerate them
thanks to a bowl of carrot coins.
These girls' skin is very tough and difficult to get a needle through...
in fact, their rump is almost impenetrable,
so Dr. Becky vaccinates them in the shoulder area.
A little squeal of protest is about all they give us,
as they munch, munch, munch on their yummy carrots.
When the carrots are finished a flake of hay takes their mind
off the harrowing (not) experience.
They never hold a grudge...
actually, I think they forget the "ouch" almost immediately.
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Saturday Hubbs and I had a day away from the farm.
We joined a group of our friends and headed to State College
for the Penn State - Illinois football game.
We had a blast and returned home to find this gift from our dog sitter:
I hope you enjoyed this as much as we did....
we laughed hysterically!
PS...that ending frame was supposed to say:
"Thank you Kelley!"
PS...that ending frame was supposed to say:
"Thank you Kelley!"
- It Takes A Village
The last several days' beautiful spring weather has given us the opportunityto accomplish quite a few tasks on the spring chore list.Some tasks, like staining the pirate ship and outdoor furniture is easily done by one person.Other tasks take a village....
- Piggy Pudding For All
I was in the feed room yesterday afternoon getting everyone's dinner ready.Being Christmas, I had brought a bag of carrots to the barn with me...so that everyone had special Christmas treats with their dinner. Across the aisle from the feed room...
- Harvesting Carrots And Squabbling Goats
I am so excited this year by our carrots.If you remember, when I ordered seeds, I orderedred and purple carrots.These might just be my new favorite vegetable! If you have grown carrots, then you know what a challenge harvesting them can be....especially...
- Happy Manure Year!!
You might remember me discussing equine parasites over the past few months. Much to my horror, I found bot eggs on the Bigs' and Little's front legs this past autumn. Dr. Becky advised me to wait until after a good freeze and then...
- Faqs
Some of you have read my blog from almost the beginning.....a few years ago. And some of you have joined the fun along the way. Quite often I get questions about Becky and "who" she is. Becky is Hubbs' younger sister. Becky, or Dr. Becky as I sometimes...