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There’s a sheep in that sheep! Shearing Day.
Before I even started looking for Mama the sheep I began asking around about a local shearer. Sheep need to be shorn every year, they are mountain animals, they thrive in the winter but to leave all that wool on a sheep in the summers here would be awful. So a local shearer was critical…
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Leghorns Liberated
The leghorns have been liberated from their warm basement home and are now out in the small pen in the corner of the big chook house. The small pen is called Fort Knox because it is absolutely predator proof, one year rats killed about 6 of our little chickens, since I made Fort Knox I…
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Good News – with Hope attached
It looks like there is more action around the troubled bee hive than I thought there would be. (Here are two little old tractors waiting to go and live in the sand pit of two bright little boys.) Anyway, the scene yesterday outside the struggling hive was very active. Many bees from both hives were…
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Good News – with Hope attached
It looks like there is more action around the troubled bee hive than I thought there would be. (Here are two little old tractors waiting to go and live in the sand pit of two bright little boys.) Anyway, the scene yesterday outside the struggling hive was very active. Many bees from both hives were…
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It looks like we lost a hive to the cold
Or at the very least a lot of bees from one hive. The night they were installed it got very cold.. and I suppose they did not get huddled together close enough in time. The other hive seems fine though, noisy and active. In fact late yesterday afternoon there seemed to be activity in both…
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