Animals
Mail Order Chicks
Hot Take on Mail Order Chicks Jersey Giant mail order chicks The million dollar brooder set up I even bought them toys Many people are surprised to hear that baby chicks can be delivered by the US Postal Service. In fact, the USPS has been transporting live day-old chicks since 1918 and most people had
Chicken Math
Spring time on the farm means babies. Calves and foals are exciting and adorable. We wait all year and hope that nature will take its course and I won’t have to figure out what all those items in my ‘Calving Kit‘ are for! Waiting for large animal babies requires every ounce of patience I have.
Never scroll my camera roll
Never scroll my camera roll, but especially not during calving season. Piece of advice – the camera roll on my phone should have ‘graphic image’ warnings – if I hand you my phone to show you a picture, please resist the temptation to swipe. Maybe it’s because I’m older and getting near-sighted, or maybe it’s
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Goats’ First Booty Call
Ever heard of a goat rodeo? That’s the expression I use at work when people are going off in their own directions and creating chaos (no one else at work lives on a farm, so they might not understand that phrase…) Anyway, we have had a real life goat rodeo the past 2 weeks. Sugar
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