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March was actually behaving well…like March today. I suppose if we just closed our eyes and pretended that the snow on the ground had been here since December or January instead of arriving just 5 days ago it wouldn’t be all that different from other years, at least at a glance. Having said that though,…
Mother Nature doesn’t like to trim toe nails either!
At least that’s how I’m choosing to interpret the arrival of close to a foot of snow last night. The last time we were due to trim nails herd-wide back in January it snowed several inches as well. Seems to me the evidence is pretty clear. Either that or the good Mother is just poking…
Starting to think about the Spring
No, not that way. I mean really: get your mind out of the gutter! This is after all a (mostly) family-oriented blog. How about PG-13? Alright, never mind. In any case we seem to have two modes on this farm when it comes to the offseason here between the months of November and March (at…
Which of these critters are not like the others?
Just a little photographic teaser today. Below are six fiber shots taken last week. One of the animals featured has won a banner before and is slated to start working as a legit Herdsire this coming spring. Two others are on the outside looking in of the depth chart for white males born in 2011…
Paddock condition?
Remember when it was cold in the Northeast last weekend? Yeah, shocking but true it is still — at least according to the calendar — winter here, yet we have all been made so soft by the mild temperatures of the past couple of months that when Mother Nature actually acted normally we all started…
A relatively quiet week
All is quiet on the northern front. Which really is as it should be this time of year. Jen and Kim did the mighty herd-wide cria weigh-in yesterday at the Arena and though their backs weren’t feeling so great by the end of the day, our scale just confirmed what we already suspected: no one…