We were down to just two ducks in the flock after the raccoons and the eagles got done helping themselves. And of course, as luck would have it, they left us with two hens that hadn’t laid a single egg in the past four months. And in creep those pesky moral...
We’re not entirely sure what happened to summer, but fall here on the farm is definitely in full bloom….and it is nothing short of spectacular. The goat kids are growing up, the pigs are getting huge, the chickens are molting and the leaves are starting to...
A quick biology refresher for everyone: We want milk from our goats; To get milk, we must get our does pregnant; To get our does pregnant, we must bring in a buck… Enter Jack. Or Jack Attack. Or Jacomo Fina Nay. He goes by many names. But he has only...
We’ve been working non-stop around these parts. Here are some photos of the homestead from the last week. [juicebox gallery_id=”23″] *Email followers will have to view the post here to see photos*
We didn’t want to rush in, so we waited almost a month. And we wanted to start small, this being our first foray into mammalian livestock, so we bought Nigerian Dwarf goats (they actually prefer “Nigerian Little People Goats)”. We got a book...
