So I woke up this morning and guffawed when I realized that I could add something new to the description we have in our sales materials for our young female, Jabulani. It seems that in addition to her many other positive traits she also enjoys kicking the sh!t out of porcupines! That old line you…
So after a week of some pretty intense birth/death/birth/death/birth pendulum swings we were thrilled when one of our foundation females just had a good old run of the mill delivery. No drama, no intrigue. Just a normal, healthy, and pretty interesting looking King of Ladies boy. Hurrah for boring. Not that we were allowed to get…
It’s been a while since I’ve gone three days without polluting cyberspace with something here on the blog. A sign of the times. The effort of prepping 30 fleeces for Nationals (that would be Jen, see pic below) while simultaneously managing our kids school and sports schedules, and officially kicking off the 2011 breeding season…
The Arena and Main Barn are slowly but surely starting to empty out as we begin the process of sending roughly half of the herd out to pastures away from the buildings themselves. From my office window in fact I can see our rather small group of yearling males happily munching on almost 10″ of…
…is that it’s raining. Meaning that all of the good folks that are waiting on fleece samples from us at the moment are temporarily out of luck. The finer fleeced animals up at the Arena just look like complete hell. “Frumpy” really doesn’t do it justice. You can certainly tell it’s time to shear. On…
We are Yankees, we are a complaining people. It’s in our blood. Leaving aside the fact that our town had finally come in and graded the road we live on from the bottom of the hill where it begins all the way to our mailbox, this is just tedious. That was supposed to mark the…
