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TikTok Ban: Gotta move content
Please forgive me, I know I haven’t posted in forever, and I promise I plan to get back to it soon, but for now, this post is just to move my content from TikTok over before I lose it. As of January 19, 2025, the United States will be banning TikTok and I do not want to lose access to…
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A Very Cold January Made for Many Memories
I read a post from a fellow farmer and had to borrow it because it was perfectly written for what we experienced: My hair went unbrushed for 3 days mid-January because I was too busy making sure we kept all our animals warm, fed, and safe during the arctic freeze we were experiencing. Mission accomplished!!!!! Also, I promise I washed…
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Life on our farm is like being in the Circus, especially when the pigs get out!
Wow! Those 8 weeks flew by so fast! All of the piglets have been sold, and the last one will go to her new home next weekend. Let me just say, piglets are so dang cute and fun to watch! That being said, after lots of thoughts and prayers, we have decided to get out of the pig business for…
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It’s Piglet Season on the Farm!
Our two Hereford Pigs gave birth this past week! Olivia had two healthy girls and one healthy boy on Sunday, Sept. 10. Two days later, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, Runt gave birth to three girls and a boy. Unfortunately, on Wednesday afternoon, we noticed one of Runt’s girls couldn’t get up onto her back legs. After letting Runt out of…
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Processing Day + high temps & humidity lead to the Emergency Room
Remember how I mentioned our new plucker in my previous post? Well, it’s officially amazing! Over the last couple of weeks we had a few processing days and the new plucker works so well! We have finally fully processed & packaged 98 birds. We get our meat chickens as 3 day old chicks from Freedom Ranger Hatchery and last type…
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Summer is here, with hurricane strength storms & extreme heat & humidity.
It just hit me that I haven’t posted since April! Sorry!!! Life has been a little hectic… let’s see, May 19, Shaun graduated from high school, and we had tons of family over from all over the place. It was the first time since our wedding in 2001 that we had both sides of the family all under one roof!…
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Tragedy Struck at the Farm
We suffered a tragedy this past weekend. Our sweet Turkey-Turkey that had decided to nest in the back of an old truck was taken by a fox, two days after her babies died. Turkey-turkey was so sweet and loved to talk. She was laying on her first clutch of eggs and had recently hatched all but one egg. Friday afternoon…
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We have babies!!!! And one of our first major losses.
Our first kidding!!! Snowball gave birth to triplets without showing any signs that she was in labor! Shannon heard Oliver barking, so he went outside to see what was going on. He found Oliver standing over a tiny baby goat, trying to “protect it” from Snowball as she was trying to clean up her newborn. Once Oliver was moved out…
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When life throws a curveball, or two or three…
Life definitely threw me a few curveballs this past week. It all started out Saturday. I was helping Shannon move some giant belt thingies that we used in place of landscape fabric (always trying to be frugal) so that we could move our pigs to till up the area for our garden. Welllllll, I didn’t realize the surface of these…
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Getting this blog started!
Meet Rooster Cogburn. See how he has his head cocked as if he’s wondering “what the heck is she doing now”? Yep, that’s how I have felt while trying to get this blog set up and started! So confusing! All the themes, formats, blocks, plug-ins, and the darn scoring systems that keep making me change my words because, well, if…
