As I type this it is 11:37 pm and there are jars in the pressure canner. Two jars to be exact. Two jars that mean I have 55 more minutes to stay up and forgo the rest my body is craving. Two jars that also just might be the very jars that God uses to […]

One sure way to lose every last one of your livestock is by not knowing the signs of parasite infestation in your flock. To know the signs you need to know your livestock. To know your livestock you need to be hands on. I am not saying that you have to talk to your sheep, […]

Let’s talk about Livestock Guardian Dogs for a minute. We have them. We’ve trained them. And we’ve learned a lot along the way. Our first flock of Katahdin Hair Sheep were nearly all killed or severely harmed by a domestic dog attack on our farm. The ewe I mention in “the truth: about ketosis and ewes” […]

Ketosis: let’s talk about it. I’d be lying if I said it was a word well received in this house. While going through the learning curves of beginning sheep farming, we experienced loss from Ketosis. All it took was once for me to dive in and learn everything I could find on the why’s, how’s, […]