Looking for ways to make our household into a self-sustaining homestead is always interesting. Having a real functioning Homestead is not something most people think about in this day and age, but surprisingly enough, more and more people are beginning to take a serious 2nd look at the idea. With the economy behaving as unstable [...]
The heat of summer is upon us, we’ve had a couple of 27C days last week which is too hot for my comfort and that of our black-furred dogs. (and yesterday, torrential rain of about 3″ total, flooded us a bit, welcome to Alberta weather!) I’m very glad our barn is a much cooler and [...]
Well things have been very busy around here lately, but in a stop and go fashion as I’ve had 2 trips to BC for several weeks at a time each. It in general has been cold and wet during the periods I’ve been at home from April till now so only half of our fence [...]
It’s shaping up to be a busy time on the farm with the arrival of spring! We have a new litter of 9 rabbits just born last night, and I’m excited to see 6 dark-skinned babies in with the 3 light-skinned ones. We’re trying for blue fur and it looks promising so far. The white [...]
Normally weeknights are usually un-eventful being school nights for the kid and short evenings before heading into work the next day. Our monday night this week took a complete sideways slide. It was really icy with the new snow that had fallen the night before and was our first really yucky dump of 4-8 inches [...]
Here’s some pics of the animals today enjoying the warm, dry weather. Also some other pics from the past week and a bit. Milking Lisa our Nubian – SaanenxBoer cross goat is going well and we’ve built a milking stanchion which makes the job a snap. I don’t even have to catch her anymore, just [...]
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We were finally successful after a few fits ‘n false starts with moving the llama shed out from behind our house into the field where all the critters need it to sleep in. Maybe the goats will jump our middle fences less now! Here are some pictures of the shed where it was sitting behind [...]
Well it’s been an insanely busy month, and we were called away for a family emergency for the first half of october. By the time we got back, the first snows had already fallen! Ack!, now we’re looking at finishing the fencing and moving the llama shed and doing a number of maintenance repairs to [...]
Well today we picked up our 5 month old Nubian Lamancha cross dairy goat Aega. Sweet thing she is being coloured beige and white and has a sweet temperament. I got her home and took her to meet the others in our little flock. They were quite interested in her, though Moose the goat butted [...]
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