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The Mama Black Sheep Blues (Part 2)

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All day long Mom wrote for fifteen minutes, then she’d run out and check the ewes.

Heritage Chickens Defined

Animals
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The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy secures the term Heritage Chicken in effort to raise awareness for consumers and breeders.

The Mama Black Sheep Blues (Part 1)

Animals
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We have five baby lambs at our house!

Smart Sheep

Animals
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Yesterday a man stopped to look at our water buffalo, Ludo.

Writing Farm Poetry–or Farm-Ku

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Uzzi and I are poets! We took a walk with Mom the other day. She stopped on the ridge behind her house and said, "Look at that boys, it’s pretty as a poem down there!”

Ice Storm (Part 3): Drinking Water and Melting Ice

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Mom says if our drinking water isn’t clean enough that she would drink it, we don’t have to drink it either.

Ice Storm (Part 2): How Long Will It Be Cold and Dark?

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Uzzi and I were worried. We have long winter hair with a cashmere undercoat, so we were toasty warm inside our straw-bedded hut.

Ice Storm–Oh, What an Ice Storm! (Part 1)

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Uzzi and I have our own Port-a-Hut (that’s a goat-size metal building; you can see some at the port-a-hut.com website!), so we hunkered into our cozy bedding, munched our yummy hay, and listed to sleet pounding our roof.

Hutch’s Arrival (Part 2)

Animals
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When my human mom and dad took baby Hutch away, Latifah cried and cried.

Healthy Homemade Dog Treats

Animals
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Pet expert and author Arden Moore offers up some homemade dog treat recipes for your hard-working farm dogs.

Gravy Cookies for Dogs

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Arden Moore has a few more of the homemade, healthy dog treat recipes from her book to share. (Have you seen the ones people can eat, too?) Your meat-loving dog will “sit” on command if you serve this easy-to-make recipe. Hey, where it is written that cookies must be sweet to taste good?   Ingredients 2 ½ […]

Crazy for (Italian) Rabbits

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I’m crazy for rabbits, and I can’t imagine anything sadder than keeping rabbits in tiny wire cages.

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