Big day here on the farm! As you may know, we’d taken steps to teach ourselves to shear, and even invested in some equipment, but were only able to take it so far — obstacles included our own time, energy, know-how, and the quality of the equipment. We got two lamb boys “sheared” back in …
The aracaunas, pretending it’s time for a spring dustbath, even though they haven’t resumed laying yet. None of the chickens have, and they’re about a month delayed. Casting about for ways to kickstart them, though my inclination is ‘they’ll lay when they lay.’ We’re hoping there isn’t an underlying problem. They certainly seem healthy in …
Three Bunny Farm was established August 21, 2014, in Troy, ME, with the construction of its first rabbit hutch: Started two days previous, using solely salvage lumber from demolition projects in the main house, the building is actually designed to be half-rabbit hutch and half-chicken coop. The rabbit portion, on the right, is generously covered …
I’ve been hanging out with sheep a lot since arriving here in Maine. My sister had thirteen when we arrived; an immediate fourteenth was born, and now there are sixteen. There will be more. They are raised for both fiber and meat.* When I first got here, they were a mass of baaing fuzzy beasts …