Author Archives: EBet
The Poultry Round-Up
I’m so excited! I ordered some new chicks, they will be coming in the mail in 8 days. I’ll be getting 20 Brown Leghorns 20 White Jersey Giants and 5 white Plymouth Rocks. The leghorn is a white egg layer, which will be nice to have and they’re a beautiful bird. The Jerseys and Rocks … Continue reading
Dog Attack
WARNING! The contents of this post may be graphic and unsettling proceed with caution…….. Sunday morning we woke to find evidence that dogs had come in the night, killing two lambs and injuring two more. Whenever something is killed on the farm we make sure to take note of how it was killed so we … Continue reading
Cricket
doesn’t she look like a cricket…….. Around 11:00 yesterday I went out to feed a lamb that wasn’t taking to it’s mothers enormous teats (they’re bigger than the dairy goat’s) and as I was feeding the lamb I happened to look over at Rory and see a little black pile she was licking. I … Continue reading
I Have a Kid!
This is Cricket, my brand new baby girl! I’m so glad she’s finely here………I’ll post more pics and tell you all about her later, right now I’m going to rest from my long day of taking care of babies. EBet the Goatkeeper
Two More
Two more lambs were born yesterday afternoon. We love when they’re born in the nice warm day time……they seem to get a better start than when they’re born in the frozen night! These two are boy and girl, a perfect set of twins. This ewe was a show lamb from my last year of showing … Continue reading
New Water System
The following post is written by EBet. I, Lanny, am pleased to say that EBet from Paddle in the Pond will also be posting here. She writes and posts about the sky and the wildlife around our ponds over at her blog, take some time to check it out if you haven’t been there yet. We were … Continue reading
