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Training Pigs to Electric Fence

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Saturday February 26, 2011   -   By David

Tamworth Gilt Pigs are easily to keep in with electric fence. But training them to respect it is critical. When we start new piglets out here on the farm. We always take them through a training process. Without training them you will end up...

Goat World

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Friday September 04, 2009   -   By Chris

Sarah, our Toggenburg milk goat, is hopefully an expectant mother. That being the case, it was time to build her a place of her own.  She was living with the sheep, able to come and go in and out of the pasture on the schedule of the cattle, but we...

This is frustrating!

Blog: The Berry Patch   -   Monday April 27, 2009   -   By Mary Pat and Jason

It is very upsetting that all the hard work we put into planting trees and the elk have finally found their way into The Berry Patch. Only one tree has been damaged, but it is the unimaginable sign that more is to come. These creatures are so super destructive...

Cedar Posts

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Sunday March 29, 2009   -   By Chris

A task up ahead is to section the pasture off into at least two, maybe three areas for grazing.  That way, we can rotate the animals from one area to another and keep the grass from getting too low. With that in mind, I responded to an online...

Don't Fence Me In!

Blog: Re Rustica   -   Wednesday March 18, 2009   -   By fullofbeans

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re constructing a fence to keep our birds from grazing on our neighbor’s field. They just discovered the tasty grasses and things there! They’re not bad birds, but they do need some structure in their lives....


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