July 22, 2011 farm life Extreme Hot Weather Livestock Care If you're lucky you're one of the two people in this country NOT affected by the evil "Heat Dome" thats covering most of t...
July 21, 2011 farm life Sunflowers! Dontcha just love sunflowers? The BOSS (black oil sunflower seed) sunflowers that I planted with clover in the front of the property are doi...
July 20, 2011 farm life garden Oh glory! Oh Happy Day! Oh Glory! Thank Heaven! First tomatoes are in - at last! These are "Mountain Gold" one of my absolute fav's... n...
July 19, 2011 chickens Surprise! or "Its so hot the eggs hatch themselves! " Here's a shocker for you.... this morning I went out (early) and found this little gal running around in circles. In the middle of the h...
July 18, 2011 ducks Runners on the move Today we set up super-reinforced fencing (OK it was recycled chain link from somebody's pool) for our runner ducks. They ....well.. ran ...
July 17, 2011 chickens farm notes How hot was it!?! And hatching notes. Today it was so hot that........ one of our turkey hens, Runner, actually jumped into our big livestock water trough! She walked around like...
July 15, 2011 garden turkeys Look who showed up today! What a joy! Look who showed up today! Welcome to the world little cutie! This little baby turkey - called a poult - marched himself right ou...
July 14, 2011 chickens kitchen pigs Meet the new guy, pig clearning, and whats for dinner. We think that Charlie had at least 3 good hatchlings yesterday - there could be more tomorrow. Chai Chai reminded me of a few things to shar...
July 13, 2011 chickens pigs Pigz and hatching! Wow what a morning so far! Our weather finally broke and its pleasant out there - the humidity is blowing off and it looks like its going to...
July 12, 2011 farm notes Look what's blooming and Farm Notes At this writing (late Monday nite) we are having a tremendous thunderstorm - the second line today. Its been wild. Late afternoon backlight...