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I decided to keep track of everything I did this morning before 9am. Yes, this is typical day. In the summer months all the shoveling/plowing is substituted with fence repairs, mowing, weed whacking etc. Then there are the fun days when you have a sick, cold, bottle fed alpaca, or vet, dentist, farrier visits. Let out dogs to [...] On the first day of Christmas My true love sent to me: A Long Haired Champion Suri On the 2nd Day of Christmas My true love sent to me: 2 Heated Buckets And a Long Haired Champion Suri On the 3rd Day of Christmas My true love sent [...] Welcome Jasper and General Lee who will be spending the winter here at Dutch Hollow. They are working horses for Adirondack Saddle Tours and are spending the winter with us to fatten up and get some needed R&R before they head up back north for the next tourist season. Glad to have you boys! Hope you enjoy [...] If you’re new to caring for livestock you soon realize that you need a small arsenal of shovels, rakes and forks to pick through all the different medium your fuzzy friends poop in or on. It seems rather odd for me to be writing a post about poop detail but [...] We were thrilled with our first cria and with it came instant challenge. It was the dam’s first cria and she didn’t have any milk and when we got that going she wouldn’t let baby nurse. (Trust me, we tried everything) Of course that means we now have a bottle baby on our hands. Thankfully [...] While I was working away at our new fence over the weekend the hubby was working on our driveway drainage issue. The resolution seemed simple enough, dig a trench, lay in the pipe, fill the trench back in. Well it turns out that our water abundant property gave us an unexpected surprise, a new pond! [...] Like most ranchers I’m sure we spent our Labor Day weekend hard at work. With a new cria due any week now it was long past due to put in field fence. The last thing I’d want is for a healthy cria to be born just to sneak under the fence and into the horse [...] |
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