We are as good as done with lambing, one ewe left to go ... A total of 287 lambs were born, 243 of the lambs came from adults and 44 lambs came from 1 year o...

We first met you as rambunctious 6 month old ram lamb, being mister personality from day one. When you came down with meningeal worm after just one month wit...

This year we tried to better understand the change in weight gain of the lambs. Previous years we saw that growth slowed at a certain point, this raised many...

We raised 151 and 152 from 8 week old piglets. They came with their 3 brothers and after sending the boys off to the butcher that first fall we had a nice, r...

Fecal egg counts (FEC) is a great tool but you need to use it right. One single egg count on an individual animal is not very useful but when you have sample...

We are done with lambing for this year and thought this might be a good time to summarize the results of lambing season (for ourselves or anybody else that m...

You can use ultrasound or the BioPRYN blood test to for pregnancy testing in sheep. The benefit of ultrasound is that you can see how many lambs you have in ...

Sows will come into heat 3 days after their piglets are weaned and then have a heat cycle every 21 days. Most pigs have very regular cycles, we can usually p...

Distinguishing between parasite resistance and resilience is very import for a sheep operation that wants to produce quality breeding stock. Probably one of ...

We are patiently waiting for lambing to start the end of March but wanted to introduce our herd sires and how they earned their place in our breeding line up...

This is our second year trying to graze through the winter. We are learning a lot and respecting the cold a lot more. Our first year was an easy one by all a...

It is that time of year again where it is all about winter that is coming. We are planning to over winter the pigs in the woods this year. We still need to f...

There is something about sheep enjoying forage that just makes you feel relaxed. This year we are finishing our 100% grass fed lambs in one of our pastures t...

We got five Hereford/Hereford Cross heifers to help us manage our pastures. Now we are doing multi species grazing, the cattle graze the pasture while the sh...

We started the day a bit earlier than usual because we needed to get some other work done but the sheep had other plans for us. Before noon we had six more l...

It felt like we have been waiting forever. Exactly 145 days after we started breeding we have our first lambs. The yearling had twins, for a moment we were w...

Some people might wonder what we do with our pasture raised pigs in the winter. Well, it is simple, they stay out on pasture. We brought the pigs closer to t...

This was not exactly a planned pregnancy; you cannot control everything that happens. We were lucky to be there almost from the start when our first Katahdin...

This is our first winter on the farm, we needed a mild start to the winter and that is what we got. We farm grass fed sheep so we either graze or we feed hay...