I’ve had it in my mind for a while now that when things slowed down in the off-season that one of the things I could do would be to make a virtual tour of the farm’s major structures in pictures and maybe even some video. This is definitely something that is only possible because of…
I have to say that hearing a rooster crow here at CCNF has been a really nice addition in 2010. It certainly has made things feel even more “farmy.” Back when we first got our chicks in March they went from living in a box with a heat light in Jen’s office (they literally arrive…
Last Saturday it snowed here (see Max’s miniature ode to the coming season at left), really just enough to make the roads treacherous and remind us all that we had been lax in getting our winter tires put on. That it came in squall form over the course of just an hour or two and…
So there we were back in August eagerly awaiting the due date of arguably the most valuable colored female on our farm, Reality (SHRA Virtual’s Reality if you seek her out on ARI). How important was/is she to us and our big picture? We already have two of her daughters holding court in our foundation…
In the continuing quest to bring sanity to the 2011 birthing season Mssrs Precocious and Elite Legend will be very busy boys over the next week or so. By my calculations there are 8 females left to be bred of our own (5 or 6 of which are ready now being already 21+ days post-partum)….
In the first part of this series we tackled nutritional and reproductive management of older females. Here, as promised, I’m going to talk a little more about some other things that we’ve observed in the older female members of our herd, specifically as it relates to one particular dermatological issue, some conformational problems coming home…
