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 [...]
We have a new purebred Flemish buck in the barn who is impressively huge, yet completely adorable at the same time! He’s about 4 months old right now and we are excited to see how well he does with our does when he comes of age. He’s the largest rabbit we have so far and [...]
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 been a busy few weeks at the farm lately! We decided to attend the Wetaskiwin Rabbit and Poultry show last weekend to see what shows were like and took a couple of our rabbits there and entered them in all the classes. Our Jr. Flemish Giant buck Argent won 2 Best of Breed ribbons [...]
Yesterday was “D” day (dinner day) at the farm for 3 of our 6 month old rabbits! It was the first time we’ve done the full process of processing from cage to table. After a goodly amount of researching all the various methods we got on with it. Darren helped me with the dispatching to [...]
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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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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 [...]
Continue reading about Some pics of the last really warm day of Fall
The first pics are small as I just grabbed them off my facebook album. I’ll have to download them off the blackberry in their full resolution later.
