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One in a million shot? In what can only be described as a calamity, one of the most unlikely things happened this morning. I was planning on taking one of the young horses for a walk and was getting her ready. The flies have been nasty with all this warm wet weather we’ve been having [...] Recently we purchased a Wallenstein BXM Chipper Shredder to help with chipping all the trees and scrub brush we took down in our soon to be new orchard area. When considering buying a chipper we thought about going all out and getting the shredder to see if we could make our own livestock bedding. If [...] Comments… What are the alpacas thinking? Snuggling with Cotton
It’s a Girl! Our Easter Sunday gift was the birth of a healthy filly! Time of Birth: 2:15am 4/4/10 Weight: 100lbs Sex: Female Color/Markings: Black – few wight hairs in worl and small white kiss on upper lip For Sale: $6,500 firm Stud: Ivan-Reno Dam: Aurora LaBella Luna Email: Lindsay@lklik.com What a great little [...] Ah yes its March. What a beautiful time of year, days are getting warmer, birds are singing and the snow is melting into rivers and lakes flooding the interior of my barn. *sigh* We purchased a 30+ year old farm and barn which was made as quickly and as cheaply as possible. In other words [...] I mentioned in an earlier post that I recycle the twine that comes off my hay bales. I really try not to cut the twine when freeing a bale and if I have to I make a conscious effort to cut it next to the knot. This way I have a length of twine that [...] Does your barn look like mine? You have an old feed bag or muck bucket that just collects baling twine each time you feed hay? If you really are like me, you pay close attention to how you take off the twine. I ultimately try to remove the twine without cutting it but if I [...] With cria comes the need to find away to let them get away from the adults and have their own private little space to rest or get some extra grain or hay. Hence the invention of the creep feeder. A creep feeder is a simple concept of a space wide enough for a cria to [...] Finally the weekend! I was so excited about being able to sleep in to 7am on Saturday morning. The week was busy with long days and short nights and all I wanted was to catch up on some sleep. All that hope turned to panic with M. jabbing me in the side at 5:15am Saturday [...] |
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