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Farming: Manure
This morning, I heard an astounding advertisement from an “organic” garden supply company that claimed that manure was bad for you and your garden. Now, to many people, their logic would sound solid. According to the ad, manure based gardening soils are low energy and stink, and if you’ve ever purchased such soils from a […] Continue reading
Farming: Sometimes, the best way to learn is to do it all wrong
So, we had a bull calf born out of cycle last spring, and for some reason for the past year, I’ve assumed I was going to band him for a steer. Now, we don’t really need a steer that will be ready sometime in the fall, but that’s what I had in my head, so […] Continue reading
Farming: Life and death and farming
I can’t think of many other places where the drama of life and death unfold with such breathtaking regularity as they do on the farm . Today, I had to help a cow give birth to a calf that was too big for her and got hung up on her hip bones as it was […] Continue reading
Farming: Zombie chickens?
One of the things that veteran chicken farmers warn about is cannibalism. Chickens will attack each other when they are overcrowded, have sick chickens among them, or are just plain bored. The breed we got on April 15th, Speckled Sussex, has proven so far to be a particularly precocious one, and we discovered yet another element to […] Continue reading
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Farming: Cows in the yard!
They were invited, though.
It’s my first attempt at some pasture management in the form of using the cows to mow some grass that we’d otherwise have to burn gas to get rid of. The cows seem to be taking it all in stride, although one of our dogs wants to have a conniption because the […] Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Cows, electric fence, Experiments, Farming, Grass, pasture, Self-sufficiency
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