So we’re floating away in milk… we need to do something… and letting the girls drink all the milk they wanted wasn’t the answer – although they try every day. The answer was cheese. Homemade cheese – why not!? I know it takes lots of milk to make cheese so...
We’re floating in milk! We now have 3 dairy goats we’re milking – Tam was a pain to start with but is now our best milker! Handles good – tame – easy to milk… the best! Princes Leia is a Lamancha (the goat with no ears) and she’s small and...
Feeding the cows tonight Clara and I discovered a turtle in the cows pen – inches from the hot-wire. Clara was sure he was stuck… afraid of getting shocked but afraid of turning back and getting tromped on by those huge cows. Reghan took it up to the house and...
I thought it would be fun to document some of our animals. Now, when we have a bunch they might be noted as such, but inevidably they get a name and missed when they depart from the farm. Dogs Porter – the boss dog (GP) Cloe – ‘The girl’ (mix) Holly Jingle Mya Eva...
So, when you can’t raise a pig of your own you have a few choices I suppose – you could go out and drive around the country until you see one of those wild boars, tackle it, and somehow get it to your favorite butcher… oh wait, they don’t take wild hog… Dang! You let...
We were up at ‘the butt crack of dawn’ as my friend Clint would say… a sleepy drive to the clinic with Jingle… he normally doesn’t like cars so I was surprised he jumped right in the van… maybe a little warmer? I’m not sure – but there was no fighting him for the...
