Farm News

Last week our fifth heifer (in a row) was born! It's sort of irrelevant this time, because when we purchased the cow she was already pregnant and part of the deal was that the previous owner got to keep the calf, but it's still an amazing statistic (and blessing for a small dairy farm!) to have only heifer calves born so far. The previous owner had a very rough estimate of when the calf was due, so we had been thinking it would be any day for a solid month. Needless to say, Daddy was very relieved when Daisy finally calved. Oliver and Daisy's calf...
The previous owner wants us to keep the calf until she's five months old. This was the first calf for Daisy (the mama cow) and she didn't really like her at all, so Oliver had to take the calf away from Daisy immediately. We've purchased several new cows over the last couple of months, and now (except for this one calf that we're just keeping for the owner), we have 17 cows/calves and the boys are milking 9 of them!
We are excited about our upcoming Farm Day on November 22. We are considering a lot of different ideas and already beginning some of the preparations. Last night Elliott and Oliver tried pig tails from Oliver's pigs. We grilled them and accidentally set them on fire(!), but once the flames subsided the boys enjoyed trying them...
We are so glad that the farmers' markets are over for the season. It feels like we have a "normal family weekend" again and it's so nice! Mama found this sweet little flower costume and bought it for Sheridan...
Today is a big chicken slaughtering day. It's so cold outside to be killing chickens! The chickens are warm when they get to our eviscerating table (because they were alive just a few minutes prior) so the only consolation is that you are pulling the guts out of a warm chicken. We have a bread order for a delivery today and I'm hoping that I may be able to possibly work in the warm kitchen to fill the order instead of joining the chicken eviscerating crew... probably just wishful thinking!

~Meredith