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The seasons are changing, and so are things on the farm!
Wow! Those 8 weeks flew by so fast! All of the piglets have 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…
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Piglets!!!!
Our two Hereford Pigs gave birth this past week! Olivia had 2 healthy girls and 1 healthy boy on Sunday, Sept. 10. Two days later, Tuesday, Sept 12, Runt gave birth to 3 girls and a boy! Unfortunately, Wednesday afternoon, we noticed one of Runt’s girls couldn’t get up onto…
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Processing Day! (Days)
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…
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Summer is here, and it brought hurricane like storms and furnace like 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 high school, we had tons of family over from all over the place. It was the first time since we our wedding in 2001 that we had…
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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…
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We have babies!!!!
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…
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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…
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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…
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Hey ya’ll!!
We’re starting a blog! Please be patient with me as I figure this out. I have always posted our adventures on Facebook and so many of you have expressed that you love keeping up with our farm journey, so we’re gonna give blogging a try. Please feel free to share…