Postcards from Little Seed - 10.13.12
We've been building a hoop house for hay storage this winter. It's almost finished - we'll be starting on the end walls today!
OUR HERD
Rotational Grazing "Rotational grazing" means controlling when and where an animal grazes by moving the animals between grazing locations (aka paddocks) on a regular basis. For us, we move our goats to a new paddock every 3-7 days. This is very rare for goats, which are normally managed in confinement...
Sheba Gets Shot
Izzy and Sheba in the sunrise Most of you know Sheba, she's one of our Livestock Guardian Dogs (LGD, for short). In fact, she's the head honcho when it comes to LGDs around here. As the Alpha dog, she runs the show and we rely on her a great deal....
Lady Guinea Beats Octo-Mom By Ten
Lady Guinea with her tribe Last week Lady Guinea and Sassafras were due to hatch their eggs. I wrote about their dueling nests here. And an eventful week it was. I'll start with the good news first. Lady Guinea, out of the 23 eggs in her clutch, hatched 18 rambunctious,...
Electro-Netting vs. Polywire for Rotational Goat Fencing
Goat's-eye view Fencing is what I spend the most time doing (and thinking about) on the farm. That's probably why I bore our readers with posts about fencing so frequently. My time is split between so many different things that saying one thing dominates another is hard to do, but...
Rust Dye - Farm Art Project(!)
When we moved in, one of the first things we did was clean up what is now the goat stall and holding area (where the herd hangs while the four big girls are being milked). We found pile after pile of old rusty metal. Hooks, nails, stakes, chains, saw blades,...