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Terrapin

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Uzzi found a terrapin in our pasture!

Teeny Tiny Horses

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We have Miniature Horses at our house, four of them, in fact.

More Chicken Trouble

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Poultry |
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Thanks to the fortress-like fencing now around the veggie garden and strawberry patch, we are managing to enjoy quite the harvest already.

Cow Pie

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My mom is weird! Yesterday she was taking pictures of cow pie. Call it cow manure, cow pat, cow plop, or bull cookies, it’s just plain dung.

What in the Whorl!

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Did you know you can assess the dispositions of horses and cattle (but not us goats, darn) based on how hair grows in whorls ("cowlicks”) on their foreheads?

Chicken Troubles

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Trouble with the chickens these days. They are flying over the veggie garden fence and destroying it.

Meet Othello

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Yesterday was my Mom’s 63rd birthday. Boy, is she old! Dad thinks so too, so to make her feel better, he got her an extra-special present this year.

Say Cheese!

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People sometimes ask my Mom how she takes good pictures. Mom says it’s easy if you do the right things.

Loving’ Weeds

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Mom likes lots of plants most folks call weeds. We do too, because they’re yummy!

Shear Excitement

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Last week a man came to shear our sheep.

Hair Sheep: No Wooling Around

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Ideally suited for small-farm production, easy-care hair-sheep breeds have come a long way from their beginnings 10,000 years ago.

Here Comes Baby, Part 2

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Second-stage labor begins when a fluid-filled bubble appears in the birthing mom’s vulva (sometimes the bubble bursts before or while the baby’s born and that’s all right too).

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