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Incubation Failure = Pipsqueak!

After having a very solid incubation success rate with our Blue Andalusians, we went ahead and began incubating a bunch of Khaki Campbell ducks. We had purchased our new farm, but were less than a month out from moving in. For the most part, we were overly enthusiastic and were making every effort to prep […]

Early Chicken Adventures

Before we moved to the farm, we spent about a year ramping up our small chicken operation. We were on a piece of land that could hold chickens and my daughter was interested in expanding out, beyond the two rabbits we currently had. For whatever reason, I almost always prefer to incubate my fowl, as […]

Bottle Calf Feeding Observations

Brie, our half-Montbéliarde, half-Holstein bottle calf has started to drink less milk replacer from the bottle. It’s hard to say if this is simply part of the normal progression (as she eats more and more grass and grain) or if something else is going on. Brie is only about two and a half months old. […]

And the Journey Begins…

It is a bit startling to realize that it has been over 3 months since we started to actually move into our new farm in Goochland, Virginia! The journey was anything but an easy one – we first had to pack up everything we had collected over a 16 year period, then move some of […]