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Leon vs. Angel

June 1, 2007

Oh, the times I wish I’d had a video camera with me. We moved the sheep down in Marlborough on Thursday, just up the hill a bit from where they were. They were acting like they were starving starving, but to be honest, we probably should have kept them where they were at least one [...]

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Touch Wood

May 27, 2007

I worry that I will jinx it, but we may have actually gone a whole day with the pigs not getting out. Excuse me while I rejoice. We even went to town (for so much crap for the farm!), and everyone was in the right pen when we got back. Even Misty. Pigs are really [...]

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Pigs Now

May 21, 2007

My work machine was in the shop last week, so Friday, Lisa and I went to pick up our pigs. We got them from Kingbird Farm over near Ithaca New York. We now have two registered Tamworth gilts, three barrows (that’s a castrated boar) and an unregistered gilt that the seller warned us not to [...]

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Chicken Coop Choices

January 24, 2007

After too much reading and fretting about logistics and safety for the chickens, I’ve decided to do something I understand and which matches our environment. I’m just going to build a dragable chicken coop which can follow the sheep around. We’ll have to let the chickens out in the morning and pen them up at [...]

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Part Two — Bucky’s Backyard

January 15, 2007

Bucky is an older guy who lives in the village, about a mile away. We’ve been on waving relations since we moved here in 1990. He’s the local handyman, and we pass his house on our way to town. At different times, he’s had horses, chickens, and dogs, and it was normal for the chickens [...]

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Part Three — The Quinns

January 15, 2007

In the late summer of 2005, the Quinns asked us to have our sheep help them reclaim a pasture, because their horses were cherry picking, and they’d seen the fabulous job the girls had done on our driveway. Since we were down to nothing and about ready to have to put them on hay, we [...]

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Bye, bye Shetlies! Sniff.

January 12, 2007

I posted this story on a couple of sheep boards: Sheep Production Forum and Homesteading Today Sheep We had settled on breeding Icelandic sheep when friends of a friend needed to get rid of this flock when they lost their farm in Vermont, so we took them in. (free sheep in winer — the start [...]

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