Last week, a little chocolate calf (with a white spot on her head), lost her mother unexpectedly. She is old enough to make it without milk, but orphan calves miss the attention and comfort that only mamas can provide. Typically they search and bellow (pretty continuously) for their mothers for several days, before they resolve […]
Living on a farm is amazing, but it can be mentally, physically, and even spiritually exhausting. Not only are the hours long, and the work hard, but the circle of life plays out in real time over and over again, day in and day out. Everyone loves the baby calves, or the newborn lambs, until
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Several months ago, my sheep developed a bad habit. To give a little background, our sheep used stay in a traditional pasture. One day after looking at the overgrazed area, I decided to use my shepherding skills and show the sheep where the best foraging opportunities were. I led the sheep through open fields of