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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20221 min read
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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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20222 min read
5 more Lambs
We had 5 more lambs born. Two were born to Skadi overnight, Lyra and Jyn. When I came in early morning, Dancer had just had one and was...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20223 min read
Lamb Count at 9 with Triplets
Monday morning, Sharon gave us three more little lovely lambies. Han Solo, Chewbacca and Millenium Falcon! And yes, we were pretty sure...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20222 min read
Lamb Count at 6
Alright, a really nervous and edgy Persephone gave us another set of twins today. Mon Motha and Admiral Akbar. Yeah, Star Wars names are...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20221 min read
Two More Lambs
Lambing season is in full swing! We keep expecting lambs any day, but are surprised at how full the mama's are, and they aren't birthing...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20221 min read
First Lambs of 2017
I had my money on Freyja! Every morning when I let the sheep out, I do a bit of a walk around. I get to see who's pregnant, who might not...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20224 min read
A Lesson on Chicken Terms
OK, so I've done some educational posts in the past. I won't redo this one, but I'll post it here. If you want to learn about the...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20224 min read
2016 in Review
OK, I'm not talking about across the world, seriously, can't even talk about Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher?...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20224 min read
Lamb Statistics
For anyone that doesn't know...I'm an engineer by day. That often means I'm a spreadsheet jockey. I love numbers, they always tell a...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20225 min read
Deep Pectoral Myopathy
We've had our fair share of learning things the hard way. Sometimes, we scratch our heads and think maybe those guys raising chickens...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20221 min read
Some Fun Turkey Statistics
OK, I guess I am done hibernating for Thanksgiving Week. It takes a while to recover from the long processing weekend. Thanks again to...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20222 min read
Happy Birthday, Hercules!
My big doofus just turned 2! Here's a picture of him earlier this year, next to Moose. I think he might be bigger than him! This was our...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20222 min read
And then I fixed it...
What started as a quick fence fix turned into fixing something we thought was stuck years ago. First, I had to fix the fencing across...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20222 min read
Overwhelming October
Whew... this is a tough time of year! We finally got the last of our meat birds processed this past weekend, so a few less mouths to...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20223 min read
Repost: A Lesson on Turkeys
I finally found some turkey eggs this past week and starting sticking them in the incubator! I am so excited to hatch some poults this...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20222 min read
Halal Lamb Slaughter
We have had the absolute joy of working with a few families over the last 2 years with butchering lamb on the farm Halal. It's been a...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 27, 20221 min read
Turkey Reservations are coming...
Our CSA customers have already had the link sent out to reserve Thanksgiving turkeys. That's one of the perks of being a member. However,...
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