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?
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.
Well this month has certainly gotten really interesting all of a sudden. The cause/catalyst would be my discovery of the local Edmonton Kijiji website. I have finally found the Flemish Giant doe rabbits plus their new litters I was looking for and got 2 of them along with a New Zealand buck to start my [...]
We started fencing parts of the dog’s enclosure this evening. We got the first part done except for building a gate which will happen this week. this part will be where the dog house will go, and once it’s done we’ll fence in the larger part of their enclosure so they can have an area [...]
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We have 4 new additions to the farm and more coming in the next weeks! We’ve acquired 3 sheep (destined for my freezer and dinner table) and a goat as of yesterday. It was an adventure getting them home since we don’t have a stock trailer, but one trip to the junkyard did the trick. [...]
We were driving around last week looking for something to do and I was reading the local newspaper and saw an ad for 2 month old Blue Heeler/Black Lab puppies free to good homes. Now having just a week earlier having said no to another Border Collie-Rottweiler mix from the same place we got Zipper, [...]
Continue reading about New cattle dog Nyx added to the household Collie-Brigade!
