Here is a picture of our first chick. We had a speckled sussex sitting on 14 eggs. The first one hatched Sunday night. By Monday we were up to eight chicks. On Tuesday, I checked again and found four sloshy ones that I gave to the pigs. There was also a non-sloshy one and one [...]
After a week or so of milking our two Dexters, I have decided it is not in the cards for me at this time. Milking cows is VERY hard on your hands. I have been in near constant pain since I started. At first, the management of the two calves and their calves in and [...]
That is how many creatures we are responsible for here at Terrabyte Farm. Jackson and I enjoyed a rare day on sun the other day and went around and counted up how many of the various animals we have, here is what we came up with:
4 people (two adults, two children)
1 dog
2 cats
5 cows (two [...]
Having spent a significant portion of my graduate career performing statistical calculations, I can say with certainty that there is a strong negative correlation between the niceness of the weather and the frequency of my blog posts. Since this is my life, I can even go so far as to state with absolute certainty that [...]