Raw Milk – Just drink it!

Great tip on raw milk podcast ‘More Hip Than Hippie’. Two additional links with info about where to find raw milk across the nation and the rough time raw milk is having politically. I’m sure this blog will now be flagged for my posting this. Health before politics,...

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one week old

Final photo before the coming of age ceremony. So much cute over here. stage left to stage right – Flopsie, Dahlia, Timothy and Copper… for...

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coming of age

Our little ones are growing up so fast! Boom-boom’s kids are 4 weeks old already and teaching the new guys the ropes. Just over a week old, Pockets’ kiddos were due for their debudding. Farmer Dave decided that he’d seen the process enough times it’d be just as well to save ourselves the expense and long drive by doing the debudding on our urban farm. Not my favorite decision. I’m just as happy to have that...

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GOT MILK?

This week we began milking Boomer…separating her kids from her at night for about 12hrs.  About 5:30a she begins calling out to us saying “Hey WAKE UP, I’m HONGRY and so are my BABIES and I am gonna be annoying until you wake up!”  This is Boomer’s very loud opinion…did we say she is also known as Oprah?!  😉 Boomer surprised us all when we milked her officially for the first time…she produced just...

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Swimming chicken?!

Woke up this morning to Boomer bleating out around 6:15am, a bit earlier than usual.  So I put on some clothes an slipped on some shoes to see what the ruckus was about.  I figured she was letting us know that she was hungry but to my surprise she was trying to let us know that there was a chicken in the water trough and that this was unacceptable! Poor Sterling was floating and shivering the the water.  We have no idea how long she was...

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