We have a new baby
Wednesday, our half Jersey heifer, Surprise, had her baby -- a pretty heifer we are calling Fern because she's just the color of dead fern leaves. And we know because that night both she...
Our “crippled’ doeling is “fixed”
Maybe you'll remember that when we got our wedding cow, Lace, from our friends, Abner and Carol, they also gave me a little doeling with a leg that was contracted from birth. They hoped...
Keeping busy even when it’s cold
We haven't had a break from the Arctic cold and wind we've been having lately, with the lows in single digits and the highs in the low teens. Brrr. But we've still got lots...
Q and A: Bread in a jar and mastitis
Bread in a jar
I recently watched a cooking show where the chef made an applesauce quick bread that he baked in a wide mouth pint jar. He greased the jar, filled it about half...
Fighting like cats and dogs? Not ours!
You hear the old saying, "They fight like cats and dogs." That doesn't hold true with our animals! Our cat, Mittens, and dog, Spencer, love each other. They spend hours licking each other and...