Farm Progress: Sheep and Cattle Moved

This past week (in addition to fixing the water leak) we moved the sheep and cattle.  The two pastures that we moved the cattle and sheep into needed minimal fence work done.  Other parts of the farm need more in depth fence repairs; so we will continue to work on those. The two pictures were …

County Fair Fun

Recently our county 4-H/FFA Fair took place. The kids were busy all during the week with various activities.  They really had fun, not only competing in different events but also spending time with old friends and making new ones.  Here are some highlights from the week: It was really rewarding to see all their hardwork …

Monday Night Movies on the Farm

During the past few weeks, we have had a couple of fun “Monday Night Movies;” the first was when one of our best sows farrowed and the second was a week ago when Adisyn’s Hereford cow calved. This particular sow is very calm and raises excellent pigs each time.  We were able to take the …

Portable Automatic Waterer

Recently we set up an automatic waterer on a pallet so that it could be portable.  We don’t really want to put a lot of permanent infrastructure on this farm as we are just renting it, but we also like the convenience of automatic waterers for our livestock.  The waterer we used was a “new” …