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 [...]
It’s kidding season here at the farm for the first time! Lisa our older Nubian doe kidded last week and had 2 buckling kids (though only 1 survived), and our other doe Aega had her buckling kid this morning. It was Aega’s first kidding so she only had one baby. I hope next time she [...]
Earlier this week I blocked a section of fence where the goats and sheep were regularly crossing to get at the hay bales. I had to come up with a solution using what materials we have on hand so tried weaving branches into the existing fence and give it a top rail. The goats came [...]
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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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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 [...]
Continue reading about Extremely busy day, now what to do with Hera?
