Have you seen the movie, Babe? When the sheep tell Rex, the gruff Border Collie their password, they say Baa-Ram-Ewe, and our daughter who was small at the time, thought the sheep were saying BAA-DAMN-YOU! Now we aren’t really sure why she would think such a thing ;) - but it was quite comical at the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cattle’
Baa Damn You
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, lost skills, tagged agriculture, cattle, farm life, lost skills on August 20, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Ding Dong, the witch is dead
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm life, personal, tagged cattle, family cow, farm life, personal on August 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »
No I didn’t mean me, but Jetta. Here is another one of those posts that will either cause readers to shake their heads in disgust or in agreement.
I would venture a guess, if you have owned any kind of livestock for more than 5 years, you might know where I’m coming from. Less, than that - [...]
Chestnuts and the $2.00 farm gate
Posted in agriculture, cattle, farm life, frugal farming, frugal living, lost skills, sustainability, tagged cattle, farm life, fencing, frugal farming, lost skills, sustainability on August 8, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Look around your property and find the tree that provides you with the most, for the least amount of inputs on your part. This tree doesn’t necessarily have to be something you paid a large sum of money for, nor does it have to be particularly showy. When you find this tree, plant as many of [...]
I promise not to post until…
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, milk cow, wildlife, tagged family cow, cattle, farm life, agriculture, poultry on July 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I properly answer all my comments for the last few days. I’m canning apricot jam tonight and probably tomorrow. It’s actually raining. Yeah! Those cigarette butts the tourists toss out are making me nervous.
I have plenty to say about the garden etc, but that can wait. Here are a few pics until then.
Napping turkeys - [...]
Honky tonk bulldonkadonk!
Posted in agriculture, cattle, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, cattle, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed on July 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Linda wanted to see Henry’s other asset, so here it is.
That is definitely a standing rump roast! Nice dapples there you!! When the cows are slick in the summer, their dapples look like maple leaves, instead of round like horses dapples.
Naptime.
I’m trying to get my hay post done, and I have to do an anniversary [...]
Mad heifer disease
Posted in agriculture, cattle, farm as desired, farm life, redneck moments, rotational grazing, sustainability, tagged agriculture, beef cattle, cattle, farm life, redneck moments, rotational grazing on July 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This bruiser arrived by Bull Express on Tuesday. His name is Henry.
The steers like to hang out with bulls, and try to pick up a few pointers.
Henry will be here for 6 weeks, which will allow him to cover the cows through two heat cycles. If a cow doesn’t breed back in two heat cycles, [...]
High impact, low impact
Posted in agriculture, cattle, electric fencing, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, rotational grazing, sustainability, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, cattle, farm dogs, farm life, rotational grazing, Salatin-style farming, sustainability on July 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I want to leave a light effect on this land that I have had the great fortune to grow up on. To do that, I have to understand when I have to be hard and when I have to be soft. Usually, I have to do both at the same time. Finesse is required to [...]
The bounty of blogging
Posted in agriculture, biodynamic farming, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, lost skills, personal, recipes, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged family cow, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed, cattle, farm life, early farm life, daily farm life on June 25, 2008 | 11 Comments »
If I have a dismal season in the garden or hay department this year, maybe I can eat my words!
Blogging makes me feel even more accountable about what I say and do, here are some examples of things I’ve said of late that fit in the category of “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO…”
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Grass
Posted in agriculture, cattle, electric fencing, family cow, frugal living, rotational grazing, sustainability, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm life, rotational grazing on June 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Since the pictures of the milk cows in tall grass prompted several comments, I thought maybe I should show a couple more pictures. Let me be clear, that area grows good grass! About half our pasture looks acceptable to me, as far as growth is concerned, and the other half is fair, down to poor. But, [...]
Fence Post
Posted in cattle, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, pastured poultry, rotational grazing, sustainability, tagged beef cattle, cattle, electric fencing, farm life, frugal farming, frugal living, rotational grazing, Salatin-style farming, sustainability on May 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Remember this is under the farm as desired category - sooo read this with grain of salt. This is what our electric fencing has evolved to. Our methods work for us and it has taken us a while to get here. We work with combination of permanent fences and different styles of electric fences for different [...]
Sputnik - finally
Posted in cattle, easily amused, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, milk cow, tagged family cow, farm dogs, cattle, farm life on May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jetta is keeping her hocks together still, but her bag is starting to look like it can’t get any bigger. But it will - this is mostly congestion, but her udder looks nice.
Realizing I’m low on groceries, it’s raining, and library books are due today, we are going to town. Our co-op that we buy [...]
Insurance for when you assume…
Posted in cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, wildlife, tagged cattle, family cow, farm life, frugal living, homeopathy, sustainability on May 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Calf story - but nothing to do with Jetta. Sorry…
Remember that frozen colostrum I showed last week? I have frozen colostrum every year since getting my first milk cow, and have rarely needed it. After calving season, it becomes part of the pig treats that we find in the freezer. We have loaned colostrum to neighbors [...]
Grass rules my life!
Posted in cattle, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, sustainability, zero mile foodshed, tagged cattle, farm life, frugality, rotational grazing, Salatin-style farming, sustainability on May 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I wish all my pasture looked this good.
Grass, or the lack of it, rules my life. MiG (Management- intensive Grazing) is a complicated blend of art and science. I think about our pastures as much as I think about our gardens and orchards. After all it is food for someone, my cows, and they “feed” [...]
First calf, not Jetta’s :), :(
Posted in canning, cattle, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, pastured poultry, recipes, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, beef cattle, cattle, chickens, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, pastured poultry, scratch cooking, self-sufficiency on May 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jetta update: Nothing! Next Tuesday???
First calf of the season.
I was glad to see this guy, he the first. This cow had twins last year, she did as good a job as possible, but they were considerably smaller than the singletons. When fall came I sold them at auction since they were smaller, and always hungry. Since [...]
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