Some parts of each year are just like this. We of course try to be as proactive as possible about things both in our family life as well as with stuff pertaining to the animals in the herd (as if that were really separate) but ultimately there come moments — and suspiciously they seem to…
Jen and Kim spent a good chunk of the weekend shifting everyone around up at the Arena after the latest round of herd health, our final one before shearing next month. As the vast majority of the 2011 crias are now weaned at this point, the nutritional needs of our adult female herd have really…
The farm today feels and looks a bit like my imagined vision of Ireland: very wet and very green. Unfortunately it’s missing the fun-loving carousing and singing from the local pub. Perhaps there’s something that can be done to address that? The yearling boys that were kicked out of the Main Barn late last week…
So after 55+/- births we are down to our final 10 due females of the 2010 birthing season. We still have a few late August girls (using 11 months as general guideline) that are holding out on us but births have otherwise been generally arriving on schedule, with the last stragglers due in early November….
Sorry to have been absent from the posting world for several days now. Yours truly was caught up doing final revisions on our farm’s entries for the upcoming National Elite auction in November. Much much more on that to come in the near future… The crias have been coming steadily now for the past 10…
