(photo by Mr. Curtis) Yesterday and today we fenced. We have some old, crappy fencing that keeps me awake at night while I figure the many possibilities of one or two of our young, sweet heifers (read “fucking heifers”) getting out. It turns out number 78 or 64 is playing with the temporary zappy fence. [...]
Archive for March, 2011
The chickens were moved today from Super Palace Coop or Coopa Cobana if you will, to a small villa just across the way. It turns out, Brent is really good at catching chickens. Otto is soon to follow as he has the drive for chicken catching. He’s quite skilled at chicken chasing. We found a [...]
Two Herds Facing Each Other, But They Are One
Posted: March 23, 2011 in farmingTags: animals, f, farming
(photo by B.Curtis) Today was a day. A day like I’ve never had before. I had a first hand lesson in cow herding, cow herd mingling and fence repair. I should probably leave it at that, but then you wouldn’t get to appreciate my Gandalf moment. Brent was under control. He had a plan and [...]
Now I know that any of you who’ve learned French traditionally or even through online material have picked up the French words for various colors. Green is Vert. Red is Rouge. Blue is Bleu. Brown is Marron. Sometimes Brown is Brun. But this is false. Brown is not Marron nor is it Brun. According to [...]
Our second batch of cows arrived today. I’ll let Brent tell you how we arrived at this breed. But let me tell you, after the bucky Mirandaise, these girls were a dream. I say girls but actually there’s one little baby boy in the mob. He’s six days old and needs a name that [...]
The Girls are out and doing their grass eating thing. Well, not the Curtis girls. They’re there to demonstrate the length of the grass. The five Mirandaise had an exciting few days in the crap paddock while we waited for the grass to grow. Today they moved down to Washington – a seriously grassy paddock. [...]
