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Walnut Hill Farm at Elm Springs, LLC -
Thursday November 19, 2009 - By Jeff
19 Nov..
The ducks arrived yesterday and have settled in nicely. All of the day old runners survived the trip from the hatchery in Ohio. There was a slight change in the order, but in the end all 60 ducklings arrived safe and sound. ...
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Walnut Hill Farm at Elm Springs, LLC -
Thursday October 15, 2009 - By Jeff
October 15
The baby chicks arrived at the Goldvein Post Office early this morning. I was there waiting on the postmaster, and she opened up early, so that I could pick up the chicks and settle them in at home.
The order consisted of 100 female...
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Breeze Hill Farm -
Monday October 05, 2009 - By MaLinda
Yesterday we decided a day off
from everything was necessary for mental and physical health. We got up
early, took care of the livestock and headed for Montpelier in Orange
county, VA, to the Fall Fiber Festival & Sheepdog Trials.
What a beautiful...
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WICFA wants to keep you in the know about what is going on with premise registration and NAIS in Wisconsin -
Monday October 05, 2009 - By Clifford
Patrick Monchilovich is going to be in court on October 21, 2009 at 1:00 pm in Balsam Lake, Polk County, WI. Patrick ranches in Cumberland, WI and has never signed-up his ranch in Wisconsin's Premises Registration Database. Please make it to the...
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Oak Hollow Livestock -
Thursday August 27, 2009 - By Sara
As summer is drawing to a close at Oak Hollow Livestock, we are busy thinking about and preparing for winter. We have barns to build, hay to buy, fall shows to prepare for and maybe even a few goats to think about selling in preparation for cooler...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday June 21, 2009 - By Chris
It's been raining on and off for almost three weeks now here in Southern New England. The forcast calls for rain and thunder storms for the next 7 days. This is good for some of our garden but detrimental to tomatoes, peppers, and people who don't...
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Hurricane Farm -
Tuesday June 16, 2009 - By Chris
Here, at long last, is a photo of our new grain bin, also known as a silo. It holds 4.5 tons of grain and we order it 3 tons at a time. The mill makes it per our specifications and this shipment of feed (that we are feeding to our poultry and hogs)...
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Bloom Where You're Planted Farm -
Friday June 05, 2009 - By Teresa
When you have horses or other livestock and you don't want to feed them hay and grain all summer long, you're always putting up or taking down electric fence. This was the case with us last night.
The horses had polished off most of the...
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Hurricane Farm -
Tuesday April 28, 2009 - By Chris
Here are some updated photos of our new calf, Aloysius, running in the field. These were from about two weeks ago. By now, the grass is really starting to take off in the field. We over-seeded the pasture with a nice mix of grasses just...
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Hurricane Farm -
Friday April 03, 2009 - By Chris
We have just completed Phase 2 of our SILO ACQUISITION.
Phase 1, the most tedious of all phases, included posting several ads on Craigslist throughout the greater New England and Pennsylvania area in the hopes of locating an unwated silo (a.k.a. Grain...
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IICFA -
Thursday February 12, 2009 - By GrannySue
Many of you are already aware of the NAIS program, however, this issue addresses both that, and the USDA's decision to hold a planning session for emergency livestock disease control - without benefit of owner/producer involvement of any sort.
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Wild Winds Sheep Company -
Sunday February 08, 2009 - By Catherine & Martin
The 2006 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report, Livestock’s Long Shadow, released in April of 2008, claimed that 18 percent of global greenhouse gases are caused by animal agriculture. The Center for Consumer Freedom...
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Alpaca Farmgirl -
Tuesday January 27, 2009 - By Katy
Our first two alpacas were scheduled to be delivered soon. I wasn’t
sure how we would keep them safe from predators. Our fences were new
and strong, but I knew I needed to find some livestock guard dogs.
Enter Beverly Coate. This wonderful old...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday January 25, 2009 - By Chris
So as the farm grows, we get to purchase cool things that we would never even window-shop for if we lived in, say, a condo.
Case in point: a grain silo. We've located two different places that will custom mill grain for us and deliver as...
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Alpaca Farmgirl -
Wednesday November 05, 2008 - By Katy
The end of daylight savings time signals the beginning of the best season on our
farm. In LA (Lower Alabama) we really only have two seasons, Summer, and not
Summer.
Summer involves watching the alpacas carefully for signs of heat stress. It
is super...
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