Miss Lucy

                                                    Lucy enjoying the cool spring morning.

Piggie cuteness

Some of the young piggies out on pasture. So sweet to see them rooting about just like their mamas.

Let me out!!

The egg crew

We managed to finally figure a way to keep the predators from carrying away all our hens. We turned one of the many grain bins into a hen house. So far it has worked beautifully. I go out in the morning feed, water and collect eggs. I let the hens free range after lunch and I collect eggs again, they get the afternoon to catch bugs and eat grass. We are still training the hens to go in at night about half of the 260 have the hang of it and the other get a nightly escort back to safety. We have been getting about 10-12 dozen eggs a day, the hens are just about 23 weeks old and are not at full production. I have been pleased with the eggs, so far we have a few hens in the old hen house that are producing double yolk eggs almost everyday. Hopefully the predators will stay away!

Hog Heaven

Good heavens time flies by when you are busy. Things here at the farm are wonderful. We are sill milking cows, enjoying the sheep, cuddling baby bunnies, collecting eggs and homeschooling. We have added some lovely Berkshire Hogs in to the mix and I couldn't be happier with them. We are hog happy here on the farm!

What have you been up to lately?

I've been canning grape juice,taking care of super cute pigs,building the addition,milking, and worrying over Lucy...

Spinach

The spinach has been trying to go to seed, I decided today to go ahead and harvest all we had and freeze some for later. I am sad to see it go we really love having fresh spinach and I sneak it into everything I can. With the hot humid weather we will have to do with other greens until fall.