From the category archives:

animals

Meanwhile… …Back at the Ranch

16 November 2009

I’ve been work­ing on updates and upgrades and all around tidy­ing to the web sties.
It is unset­tling to know that of all the infor­ma­tion pro­vided on all my sites and blogs. The thing peo­ple most want to know about and to look at are:
the chicken pic­tures…
sigh.

Read the full article →

Dog Tidy

18 July 2009

It’s time for a dog tidy!
Before:
Dur­ing:
After:

Tagged as: c-c, dogs, ivan. dee-dee

Read the full article →

Chicken Report

14 June 2009

Mz. Friz­zle and her brood of 10 are out and about every day now.

Tagged as: chickens

Read the full article →

Chicken Update

1 June 2009

The friz­zled banty hen has man­aged to hide out and hatch a hand­ful of chicks.
Jim caught this one out for a snack.
Hope­fully they will stay in the barn long enough to grow to be too big for the crows to terrorize.

Read the full article →

Funny Faces

11 May 2009

Just for amuse­ment value. This is what life looks like around here in the spring.
Click on the photo to embiggen. Really, it’s worth it. I’ll wait…
And here he is look­ing a lit­tle less goony.

Tagged as: alpacas, spring

Read the full article →

Barn Swallows are Back

21 April 2009

Each sum­mer we have sev­eral nests of barn swal­lows.
Late last week I watched the first of the barn swal­lows fly across the pas­ture. This morn­ing I had the first evi­dence that house­keep­ing has started.
One of the oldest/biggest nests is perched on top of the flood light over the feed room in the barn.
As you can see […]

Tagged as: barn swallows, nests

Read the full article →

Shearing Day Report

21 April 2009

Today was shear­ing day. There were only 6 ani­mals so it went quickly.
Here’s what the crew looked like before:
Here Jason is shear­ing the first vic­tim, er Mut­ton:
And here’s what they look like now:

Tagged as: alpacas, shearing, sheep

Read the full article →

TGIF: Chickens — The Essay">TGIF: Chickens — The Essay

2 March 2009

The final ver­sion of my photo essay on our chick­ens is up.

Click on this run­ning chicken for more pictures!

Read the full article →

Snow Report — a Little Late

9 January 2009

The snow has just about all melted — now we’re hav­ing floods. But here are a few of the best pic­tures from the Decem­ber snow storms.
We are very grate­ful to have Adven­ture Truck on our side.  He got us off the farm and safely back every sin­gle day of the storm except Christmas. […]

Tagged as: birds, farm, ivan, snow, tugger

Read the full article →