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Guess what came in the mail!
… in a small box with air holes. Twenty Black Langshan chicks! They’re somewhat uncommon, taste great, and lay beautiful dark brown (with some purple) eggs. They will grow up to be solid black with an iridescent green sheen. But … Continue reading
First tomatoes!
I found the first ripe tomatoes tonight! Lots more to follow, hopefully; the plants look good.
Cattle in the rain
Thank God, the rain finally hit us! (The last three huge lines of storms drenched everyone around us, but missed us by mere miles.) They have a barn to go into, and they usually hide in there for the hottest … Continue reading
The first cows
Over the weekend, we rented a trailer and picked up two pairs of cows from two different farms. One steer (destined for the freezer) and a heifer (she’ll be a cow once she has a baby, we named her Brigid) … Continue reading
The boys are WAY outnumbered…
… because the bees have arrived! A thriving hive will have tens of thousands of bees, only a dozen or so who will be males (drones). The queen and all the workers are female. We came, we smoked them, we … Continue reading
You might be a farmer if…
Your downstairs bathroom is occupied in the spring. Almost two weeks later, still occupied… Driving the dog nuts! “Please, can’t I play with whatever is in there?!?”
Look what came in the mail
We finally bit the bullet and ordered all the bee stuff, because we’re signed up for a nuc (short for “nucleus”, or the start of a new hive). The bees are coming, ready or not, so I’d rather be ready! … Continue reading
Victory!
It took two nights of older son grabbing hens and shoving them in the coop door, but all but one of them figured it out tonight! The last one left in the run looked a little lost and bewildered. She … Continue reading
There’s something in my field…
We’re watching curling. The dog is watching those things (that would be the chickens) in *his* field. He isn’t sure what they are, but they’re really disturbing him. .
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