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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

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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!

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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. Somedays […]

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

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The Chicken Taj Mahal Gets a Fence

26 June 2008

Our egg fac­to­ries con­tinue to receive far too much atten­tion and far too many lux­u­ries. Espe­cially con­sid­er­ing they haven’t pro­duced a sin­gle egg yet. Over the week­end we built a fence to sur­round the Chicken Taj Mahal. The fence isn’t designed so much to keep any­thing out as to keep the chick­ens in. Chick­ens are a […]

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First Sign of Spring

29 April 2008

lousy photo — i took it in the barn at twi­light. nonethe­less — he’s the first swal­low of spring.

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Busy Weekend Down on the Farm

29 April 2008

We did way too much farm stuff this week­end. We’ve known that the chicken coop needed work before it could house the new lay­ing flock. We got car­ried away. Or rather the chicken coop got car­ried away. We moved it from behind the barn out to the house-side edge of the pas­ture. We’ll be able […]

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