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Little Porker
A little barnyard joke there, which probably no one finds as hilarious as I do. But look at that chub!!! She does not mind the snow, that is for sure. Such a beauty.
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You Win Some. You Lose Some.
Daisy calved Saturday night ~ she had a breech birth and it was hard and horrible and I thought I might lose her. My vet came out to assist and, against all odds, the calf was born alive. He was up...
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The OK Corral
The last I wrote about the Farmily was the tragic loss of Daisy’s newborn calf. Thank you to everyone who expressed concern for Daisy ~ I didn’t even address that side of things because it was too sad...
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A Spoonful Of Sugar
If you’ve never used a soup spoon to feed blackstrap molasses to a six-foot-tall, horned steer in the dead of winter, I highly recommend adding this to your bucket list. It is tricky: to fill a cold...
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Under The Moonlight
On Wednesday, Daisy looked like she was getting very close to calving. I checked on her a dozen times throughout the day; each time, all she wanted was more hay and she didn’t show any of the...
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Leila Francesca
It has been really hard to get proper pictures of Leila! Part of this is the weather – photography takes the back seat when it is 107°F at 10am and there are a day’s worth of chores (and milking!) to...
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Proof
I feel I’ve been swimming the Atlantic for the last two years, and didn’t even realize it till now – now that I’m out of the water, sitting on a dock, eating a sandwich, the salt water sun-drying on my...
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Sneaking Up On Cows
I took Chloe out at 6 this morning (Charlie will stay in bed till 8am if he has his way, which he does). It was well before sunrise but the full moon was still high and bright. All the snow has melted...
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MOAR BABIEZ!!
Daisy had a baby! So… this happened really all of a sudden, or as “all of a sudden” as something that takes nine months can happen. Backing up: Daisy’s last calf was Leila, in 2014. Daisy is always a...
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Sid Has Two Mommies
Little Sid, kitchen calf, lap calf, my sweet little orphan, was a bottle baby the first month of his life, which made me “Mama.” He followed me anywhere and everywhere. If he was still hungry after...
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Snippets ~ Early Autumn Edition
It’s dark at 9pm and it’s dark at 6am – the light changed while I was gone. It’s not summer anymore, equinox schwequinox. —– I’ve been home for a week since my final Star Brand Beef deliveries and, as...
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