Birthed out!

Last week at this time there were still 5 of our females left to deliver their babies this year. While that would be all well and good in the early fall when nighttime temperatures don’t tend to drop much lower than the 40s, when there are crias due and there’s a hard frost on the…

Now it can be told.

We have almost come to view it as tradition: we go away for a little R&R somewhere and the you-know-what inevitably hits the fan in one form or another back here on the farm. Hey, with a herd this size it’s just par for the course, especially during cold weather (ok, relatively cold weather). Not…