All Sort of Things Breaking
So many broken things... First, Larry drove the tractor over a board with a nail in it, and popped a tire. Thankfully it was one of those...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Welcome
This is our new, NEW website! I am trying to bring over the best content from our old site, and restart the blog here. There is a link in...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Summer Summer Summertime!
Time to sit back and unwind. Said no farmer, ever. Between work, Shannon's rotation of summer camps (can't let an only child not spend...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 1 min
We're NPIP Certified!
Hooray! We have our NPIP certification! NPIP stands for National Poultry Improvement Plan. The intent is to help keep poultry-related...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Berthoud Farmer's Market starts SOON!
OOH! Market season is about to begin in Berthoud! We are in Fickel Park again, every Saturday from June 24 through September 29. We hope...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 3 min
Not the Way I Wanted to Say Goodbye
We lost Cindy this week. It isn't the way I wanted her to go. The irony, is that I had planned for her to go this year. I wrote about...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Second Round of Lambing
So my mama ewes that did not get pregnant by Tank before he left last fall, got pregnant by Viserys - have all (but one) given birth. We...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 3 min
Saying Goodbye to Schroediger
Preface: This blog originated when we first moved to Colorado in 2006 as a way to communicate our new adventures to our friends back home...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 2 min
10 Years on the Farm!
We are celebrating our 10-year Farmiversary this weekend. We hope you can join us at a little shindig on the farm to celebrate! In the...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 3 min
Lando Cowrissian and Count Mooku
We now have 2 new steers on the farm. We've done something a little different this year. We have, randomly, in the past raised a few...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 1 min
All the Brooders are Full!
Spring is really springing now! Our first batch of meat chicks are getting close to leaving their brooder. It's hard to believe how time...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Baby Birds are Here
I know when spring has sprung, because we start hearing peeping noises from the incubator. OK, that makes it sound like a surprise, but I...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Spring is Springing
We've been getting a lot of little things done around the farm. We got our first batch of meat chicks in, so the brooder was set up and...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Repost: Duck Eggs vs. Chicken Eggs
We originally posted this on our original blog back in June, 2012. And since our ducks are happily laying eggs again, I wanted to repost...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Sunday Ramblings
I don't really have anything specific to say, I just feel like talking to you folks! I put my first batch of duck eggs in the incubator...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 3 min
We Are Not Vegetarians
That's probably pretty obvious. I post ads on Craigslist sometimes. I think I've found a few new customers that way, it's free, and so I...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 4 min
The Farm Has Broken Our Backs
We are coming up on our 10 year anniversary of living on the farm. 10 Years ago we were 33. Why does that suddenly sound so young?...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Mastitis
We've been raising sheep for 10 years now, and just got our first case of mastitis. Mastitis is an infection in the udder. Any nursing...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 3 min
Saying Goodbye to Cindy
Each year, we save a ewe or two from that year's lambing to increase our flock size or replace lost ewes. It's not common, but there can...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27
- 1 min
15 Lambs and a Bottle Baby
Freckles gave birth yesterday to a ram lamb we named Obi Wan Kenobi. He's pretty cute. Nope, there isn't anything in his mouth, those are...
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