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Icelandic

Twitter feels like spying

August 28, 2009

There’s quite the farming community on Twitter. There’s a perception out there that farmers aren’t smart enough or connected enough or have time enough to Twitter. It turns out that a lot of Big Ag has guys out in big tractors and combines and such driving in big circles all the live long day. Many [...]

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My Minx

December 15, 2008

Why do I own a sheep named Minx? Have I told this story before? Way back in 2004 when we were looking to get three Icelandic sheep, Frank found someone in Temple, NH who had three registered for sale. She said her husband had recently died and they were his hobby. She had one ram [...]

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Decisions, decisions

October 31, 2008

After five days in the hospital, I am finally back home. What a pain in the ass, literally (!), this has been. With a direct blow to my lower back, the damage took a lot of tricky fiddling to figure out how to treat me. It was days before I could move without screaming in [...]

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My fall farming footwear

October 12, 2008

We finally got back the socks that we had Zellinger Wool knit for us from our wool. It was expensive to do, but I’m so pleased with these socks. Now that it’s cooler in the mornings (around freezing almost every day), I slip the socks on in my crocs and then go out to milk [...]

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Who's her daddy?

June 3, 2008

I had a surprise this morning. I thought I was done with lambing, and that none of Spike’s girls caught. I figured his troubles with parasites all last summer stunted his maturity, but I’d give him another year to see if he catches up. But I woke up this morning to a beautiful new moorit [...]

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Prolapse

April 26, 2008

Marilyn separated herself from the herd last night, and I fully expected to find lambs from her this morning. Instead, she was down, and when I went to check her out, I found she had a prolapse. I’d never actually seen one before, but it was all we could think of. It looked like a [...]

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Things are hopping now

April 18, 2008

We’ve had entire week of warm and dry weather, which is good because we have a million things to do. The waterfowl went outside last weekend, in electric poultry netting. They started with a dogloo for shelter, yesterday we added a dog crate so the ducks and geese each have their own digs. They’re pretty [...]

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