A little over a year ago, assessing the wellbeing of ten sheep was as easy as walking into the paddock with a handful of grain and waiting for everyone to come and say “hi.’ I could touch, FAMACHA and evaluate all of my sheep in a few minutes. Simple! With 60 sheep now present inContinue reading “Checking the Flock”
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A Day about Pigs
We are having a little piggy-roast next weekend in honor of Matt…getting older, let’s say. We brought a live pig home last week. She was cute as could be – a 60lb gilt (young sow) with endearing eyes. She loved the apples and sheep grain I offered and would batt her long eyelashes atContinue reading “A Day about Pigs”
Off to the Auction
In my last post, I mentioned that we are actively gearing up to buy a farm, make our own hay, and raise sheep full-time. Yesterday, we went to the Rene Fournier Equipment Auction to search for useful implements for our farm. Picture a huge lot filled with new, used, and well-used equipment. A few title-lessContinue reading “Off to the Auction”